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An Investigation of Iraqi English Foreign Language Learners Awareness of Hedging Devices in Academic Writing | ||
| Journal of Tikrit University for the Humanities | ||
| Article 1, Volume 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 363-370 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Sada Ali Hamid; eed Majeed; Dr. Nawfal Sa | ||
| Abstract | ||
| ABSTRACTThe present study deals with an investigation of Iraqi English foreign language learners awareness of hedging devices as constitutive features of academic writing. Students in academic level may face many difficulties in using hedging devices because of:1. Lack of teaching of this area of language use .2. The students are not taught to modulate their propositions not even sensitized the issue.3. Lack of awareness of the use of expressions of tentativeness and the end to mediate claims in academic texts may possibly hinder or even distort comprehension.This study is limited to the third year students in the English Departments, College of Education and College of Education for Women, University of Tikrit. | ||
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