Sensitivity to differences between speech and writing: Hong Kong students' use of syntactic features in English.
Analysis on most heavily overused and underused syntactic features shows that, when compared with native speakers, Hong Kong students favour the use of present tense, tentative style, simple noun phrase structure and explicit clause-relation marking in oral presentations. They prefer using present t...
Other Authors: | Chui, Sze Yan. |
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Format: | Others |
Language: | English Chinese Chinese |
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2011
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Online Access: | http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b6075097 http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-344730 |
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