A Study on Error Analysis & Hedging Expressions of Medical Research Abstracts

• 영문명: A Study on Error Analysis & Hedging Expressions of Medical Research Abstracts
• 발행기관: 한국영어어문교육학회
• 저자명: Eunpyo Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『영어어문교육』영어어문교육 제13권 제1호, 47~66쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.03.30

영문 초록

  Error analysis plays an important role because understanding the types of errors can give a better opportunity for both teachers and learners to recognize the nature of errors and ways of preventing them. This study looks into errors in the medical research abstracts written by 26 Koreans and also examines hedging expressions since hedging can be a necessary tactic in which the validity and objectivity of their claims is conveyed. The hedging expressions of these research abstracts are to be compared with those of Hyland (1996)"s study done on ENL academic writers of cell and molecular biology. The results of the study reveal that wrong word choice was the most commonly occurred errors, followed by prepositions, articles, adding and missing words. Many of these errors, except articles, seemed to derive from the native language interference. There were also run-on sentences, subject & verb agreement, tense, word order and minor errors. As for hedging, ESL medical writers seemed to use very limited hedging expressions and inappropriately strong modals. It is recommended to take variations of hedges using epistemic adverbials and adjectives to present their claims in a more valid and polite way. Limited verb choice was also noted. As for preventing or minimizing similar future errors, collocation practices in ESP focused on commonly used medical related words and expressions can be effective.

목차

Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION
Ⅱ. LITERATURE REVIEW
Ⅲ. METHOD
Ⅳ. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Ⅴ. CONCLUSION
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키워드

error analysis interlingual errors hedging strategies collocation practices 오류분석 국제언어적 오류 여지 표현 연어 연습