Analyzing Second Language Written Summaries at University Level
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Objective: The objectives of the study are to identify and categorize non-native students´ errors in written summaries, see which research instruments – mobile reading app (experimental group) or internet-based article (control more effective, determine if language proficiency students will improve. Methods: This uses an analysis linguistic-stylistic as a method on performance 29 EFL Slovak summaries. Findings: findings indicate that most problematic areas writing summaries were grammatical (determiners), followed by stylistic (text coherence, slang words, punctuation), lexical (word collocations), lexico-stylistic (prepositions). Overall, both groups rose from B2 C1 level 38% (11 students). Therefore, methods articles effective. Novelty: novelty consists enriching existing literature pointing out making exploiting modern technology process. Doi: 10.28991/esj-2021-01322 Full Text: PDF
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Emerging science journal
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2610-9182']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.28991/esj-2021-01322