Analyzing syntactic complexity a comparative study between didactic and civilization master’s abstracts
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2022
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Université De Larbi Ben M’hidi Oum EL Bouaghi
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he diversity and sophistication of the grammatical structures utilized in language formation is characterized as syntactic complexity. The latter is clearly apparent when learners use distinct genres, for different purposes, in their writings. The goal of this study is to examine and compare the syntactic complexity of dissertations' abstracts written by master two students (25 from the didactics branch and 25 from the civilisation branch) at the English department of Larbi Ben M'hidi University of the academic year 2020/2021. Coh-Metrix (version 3.0), a powerful automated writing assessment tool, was used to analyze the corpus, which yielded 106 indices, 41 of which were verified and grouped into three banks of linguistic characteristics. However, only the syntactic complexity has been explored in this work. The findings of the statistical analysis of the data reveal that syntactic complexity successfully distinguishes didactics from civilizations' writings. . Results showed that syntactic complexity varied significantly between master two civilization students' abstracts and didactics ones. The former appeared to achieve a higher level of sophistication and to use more complex and prestigious syntax. A variety of instructional implications have been attributed to these findings.
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Sytactic Complexity, Corpus Linguistics, Dessertation Abstract