Using nouns in online english writings of EFL students in Vietnamese higher education context
List of Authors
  • Ph?m Th? Thu H??ng

Keyword
  • English writings, online, interpretive noun, vague noun

Abstract
  • The rapid development of high technology and the Internet has made potential contributions to English language education for the past few decades. Many linguistic experts have conducted relatively intriguing research on online English writings abroad. Still, there have not been many studies of online English writings in the Vietnamese higher education context so far. This study investigates nouns in one hundred and thirty-five online English students' EFL writings at the University of Da Nang, Vietnam. It finds two kinds of nouns, including interpretive and vague nouns, used in these online writings remarkably. Both tend to increase in terms of the typed-word quantity and frequency in the second writing version due to the typical characteristic of asynchronous online writings. In addition, this study reveals that the students' English levels and the topics significantly influence employing two types of nouns in the students' online English writings. The more specialized the topic is, and the higher the learner's English level is, the more appropriately they use the nouns in their papers.

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