Comparative study of conjunctive adverbials (CAS) in experimental articles
Comparative study of conjunctive adverbials (CAS) in experimental articles

Summary/Abstract: The present study explored the use of CAs between Iranian non-native and native researchers of English in two types of research articles native and non-native corpora compiled by the author. For this aim, 180 research articles from different prestigious journals written by English authors as native (N) and non-native ones as (NN)writers in the fields of Psychology, Chemistry, and Applied Linguistics were chosen for analysis. The totals CAs in the native and non-native research samples were manually extracted and then their frequencies were calculated. The CA frequencies were analyzed through Chi-square (X2) to determine any difference among the CAs native and non-native users. On the quantitative dimension, it was found that NN researchers under use CAs in their articles when the study was based on word-based analysis. However, on the sentence analysis no significant results were found.

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