A comparative study on lexical and syntactic features of ESL versus EFL learners' writing.

Front Psychol · 2022 · PMC9664217 · PMID 36389505

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The difference in the use of auxiliaries between the two groups of learners was highly significant (t = 3.576; p < 0.01), as well as in the use of clausal complements ( t = 2.591, p < 0.05), parataxis ( t = 2.672, p < 0.05), and the indirect object ( t = 2.355, p < 0.05).

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