Adverb placement in EFL academic writing: Going beyond syntatic transfer

Abstract

[eng] The present study looks at adverb placement in expert writing and in first-language and second-language novice spoken and written production. The extent to which first-language (L1) transfer is still present in advanced learners' written production is also investigated. The study uses data from one expert corpus (LOCRA), two native-speacker student corpora (BAWE and LOCNEC) and two learner corpora (VESPA and LINDSEI). The results highlight the importance of taking mode into consideration, as clear distributional differences were found between spoken and written production.