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http://dspace.bits-pilani.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/19320| Title: | Linguistic markers of stance in essay writing: a corpus-based study of EFL student writing |
| Authors: | Vijayakumar, Chintalapalli |
| Keywords: | Humanities EFL writing stance Corpus-based analysis Hyland’s stance and engagement model |
| Issue Date: | Mar-2025 |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Abstract: | This study aims to understand how novice English foreign language (EFL) writers express their stance and attitude in essay writing using Ken Hyland’s model of stance and engagement (2005). Adopting a corpus-based approach to analysis, we have examined four stance features—hedges, boosters, attitude markers, and self-mentions—in a learner-driven corpus of 532 essays collected from the PYP students in a university in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over a period of three years. Our results indicate an overuse of boosters and an underuse of the attitudinal markers. It also shows how student writing relies on a few recurrent patterns to express stance in writing. Keeping the findings in view, we suggest a few implications for teaching English for academic purposes (EAP) courses to PYP students. |
| URI: | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-84278-8_3 http://dspace.bits-pilani.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/19320 |
| Appears in Collections: | Department of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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