A contrastive study of the variation of sentence connectors in academic English

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 192-202

  Carrió Pastor, María Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Academic English; Identity; Native speakers; Non native speakers; Sentence connectors; Variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878229793     PISSN: 14751585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2013.04.002     Document Type: Article

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