Academic writing requires both style and grammatical correctness; however, efforts in improving the quality of English academic writing by non-native students have been focused on grammar. Structures observed in this study were grammatically correct, but considered unnatural in academic writing genre. This research involves a group of non-native English speaking students who were assigned …
In a cause-and-effect type sentence, the choice of lexis and grammar is crucial. This paper focuses on five nearly synonymous Indonesian lemmas indicating effect, which are: . In Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (the online version of the Indonesian reference dictionary used in this study), these lemmas are described without any feature of semantic prosody. Does this mean that the prosody of the…