The use of metadiscourse analysis in undergraduate students' essays

This dataset shows investigation of the use of metadiscourse features in essays written by native and non-native speakers of English at the undergraduate level. A mixed method and corpus linguistics approach was employed. To identify the metadiscourse features, Hyland’s (2005) classification of metadiscourse items was explored. The findings revealed that the two groups of students used more interactive resources than interactional resources, and also showed a similar pattern in their use of interactive resources.

本数据集展示了针对本科生中母语和非母语英语使用者的作文中所使用元话语特征的调查研究。研究采用了混合方法和语料库语言学的分析方法。为了识别元话语特征，本研究所采纳了Hyland（2005）对元话语项目的分类方法。研究结果表明，两组学生在使用互动性资源方面超过了交互性资源，并在使用互动性资源方面展现出相似的使用模式。