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Gender Differences in Writing Complex Sentences: a Case Study of Indonesian EFL Students
| Content Provider | COnnecting REpositories (CORE) |
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| Author | Maria Fe Suganob-Nicolau Katharina Endriati Sukamto |
| Abstract | This study investigated the Indonesian EFL students\u27 proficiency in writing complex sentences and explored the gender differences in their writing products. Thirty-eight (38) high school students – 19 males and 19 females – were instructed to write a narrative account of the silent movie, The Pear Film, immediately after watching it. The result of the study revealed that the students\u27 production of sentence complexity exhibited a sequential degree of difficulty from simple sentence (1 T-unit) to more complex sentences (2 T-units or 3 T-units). Female students had higher frequencies in producing T-units, and they also exhibited a more powerful imagination and creativity in building complex sentences. However, the males outnumbered the females in the production of lexical variety. This indicated that longer sentences are not always directly related to the breadth of vocabulary knowledge |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://core.ac.uk/display/159428070 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2016-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Indonesia writing T-units complex sentences Indonesian EFL students gender differences English Language Teaching TESOL Linguistics Education |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
