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学习者学术英语写作中立场副词使用特征研究的开题报告 Title:AStudyoftheUseofStanceAdverbsinAcademicEnglishWritingbyLearners Introduction Academicwritingisacrucialcomponentofhighereducation.Itisusedtocommunicateknowledgeandresearchideastotheacademiccommunity.Inacademicwriting,theuseofappropriatelanguageandtoneisessentialforconveyingargumentseffectively.Oneofthelanguagefeaturesthatcontributetotheeffectivenessofwritingistheuseofstanceadverbs. Stanceadverbsareusedtoindicatethedegreeofcertaintyoruncertaintyabouttheideaspresentedinwriting.Theyareusedtoexpressawriter'sattitudetowardsaparticulartopicortoindicateagreementordisagreementwithanotherwriter'sidea.Inacademicwriting,itisimportanttousestanceadverbseffectivelytoprovideaclearandconciseargument. ThisstudyaimstoexploretheuseofstanceadverbsinacademicEnglishwritingbylearners.Theresearchquestionsareasfollows: 1.WhatarethemostcommonstanceadverbsusedbylearnersinacademicEnglishwriting? 2.Howeffectivearelearnersinusingstanceadverbstoconveytheirideas? 3.Howdotheuseofstanceadverbsdifferbetweennativeandnon-nativeEnglishwriters? LiteratureReview Stanceadverbshavebeenwidelystudiedinlinguisticsanddiscourseanalysis.Inacademicwriting,theuseofstanceadverbsisconsideredtobeanimportantaspectofexpressingawriter'sattitudetowardsaparticulartopic.AstudybyHyland(2009)foundthatstanceadverbsareusedmorefrequentlyinacademicwritingthananyothertypeofadverbs. Hyland(2009)alsofoundthatthemostcommonstanceadverbsusedinacademicwritingare'clearly'and'obviously'.Theseadverbsareusedtoindicateahighdegreeofcertaintyintheideaspresented.Othercommonstanceadverbsare'possibly'and'probably',whichareusedtoindicateadegreeofuncertainty. Theuseofstanceadverbsbynon-nativeEnglishwritershasalsobeenstudied.AstudybyAzimioaraandBonaciu(2013)foundthatnon-nativeEnglishwriterstendtousefewerstanceadverbsthannativeEnglishwriters.Thisisbecausenon-nativeEnglishwritersmaylackconfidenceinexpressingtheiropinioninaforeignlanguage. Methodology Thisstudywilluseacorpusanalysisapproachtoexaminetheuseofstanceadverbsin