An investigation into hedging devices in academic writing of vietnamese third-year university students at the university of da nang – university of foreign language studies
This thesis examined how the third-year students employ the hedging devices in their writing. With the high demand in learning foreign languages nowadays, achieving proficiency of English seems to be the goal that everyone wants to try to accomplish. Students, especially the third-year stude...
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| Formato: | Tesis |
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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Đại học Ngoại ngữ, Đại học Đà Nẵng
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://data.ufl.udn.vn/handle/UFL/1176 |
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| Thư viện lưu trữ: | Trường Đại học Ngoại ngữ - Đại học Đà Nẵng |
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| Sumario: | This thesis examined how the third-year students employ the hedging
devices in their writing. With the high demand in learning foreign languages
nowadays, achieving proficiency of English seems to be the goal that
everyone wants to try to accomplish. Students, especially the third-year
students in Department of English at the University of Foreign Language
Studies, are the well-qualified subjects to the study. The study was designed
in quantitative approach, together with the methods such as descriptive,
analytic and inductive methods. The data of the study was collected in 200
sample essays of 200 students whose majors are English. The researcher has
carried out step by step to find out the present situation of hedging devices in
academic writing in the level of university students. Firstly, the data was
collected and classified from 200 essays in style of academic writing with the
given topic in the limited time. Secondly, the researcher analyzed the data
based on the suggested framework. Comparing the data collected with the
theories suggested, the researcher came up with the results to fulfill the
proposed questions. A number of hedging devices which belonged to eight
main types of hedges were employed in the students’ essays. Among these,
the most commonly used hedging were the hedging verbs and epistemic
modals, which confirms the claims of the previous researchers and scholars.
Simultaneously, the errors related to hedging devices appearing in the essays
were also analyzed and the causes of the errors were proposed. The
differences between L1 and L2 of the students and the unawareness of the
students about the role of hedging devices in academic writing might be the
two main causes of the errors in the students’ essays. The results of the use of
hedges and the typical hedging errors might lead students as well as teachers
of English to have appropriate strategies in studying and teaching English. |
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