Hedging in EFL Academic Writing of Korean Postgraduates
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This study aims at investigating Korean postgraduates’ hedging strategies in their academic writing compared with those of L1 expert writers. Using Crompton’s definition and taxonomy of hedging, the study analyzed Korean students’ research papers and master’s theses in the field of TEFL/Applied Linguistics and L1 journal articles of the same field. The analysis of the frequency distributions of hedged sentence types revealed a similar frequency distribution and similar sentence structure patterns between the Korean postgraduates and the L1 expert writers; however, the former seemed to rely too heavily on modal verbs, a limited range of hedging expressions, and it-that clause structures, compared with the latter. They tended to make inappropriate stronger writer commitments using certain modal verbs, and some of them seemed ignorant of impersonal style of academic written English. Sentence adverbials and epistemic lexical verbs were not their favored hedging strategies, compared with those of the L1 writers. These findings imply the impact of L2 proficiency on hedging strategies. The results of the study also suggest disciplinary variations in the overall frequency of hedges and the frequency distributions of individual items for hedging.
Abstract
This study aims at investigating Korean postgraduates’ hedging strategies in their academic writing compared with those of L1 expert writers. Using Crompton’s definition and taxonomy of hedging, the study analyzed Korean students’ research papers and master’s theses in the field of TEFL/Applied Linguistics and L1 journal articles of the same field. The analysis of the frequency distributions of hedged sentence types revealed a similar frequency distribution and similar sentence structure patterns between the Korean postgraduates and the L1 expert writers; however, the former seemed to rely too heavily on modal verbs, a limited range of hedging expressions, and it-that clause structures, compared with the latter. They tended to make inappropriate stronger writer commitments using certain modal verbs, and some of them seemed ignorant of impersonal style of academic written English. Sentence adverbials and epistemic lexical verbs were not their favored hedging strategies, compared with those of the L1 writers. These findings imply the impact of L2 proficiency on hedging strategies. The results of the study also suggest disciplinary variations in the overall frequency of hedges and the frequency distributions of individual items for hedging.
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