Da oder weil, daher oder deswegen? / Weil es nicht zielsprachenadäquat ist…? Deswegen! Zielsprachenadäquate Ausdrücke von Kausalität in L1- und L2-Texten im Deutschen

Grammar books for L2-learners mostly follow grammatical themes, e.g. sentence – verb – conjunctions. However, when a L2-learner composes a text, he will probably focus more on the function he wants to express than the form he wants to use. In this article, functionality versus grammatical categories will be discussed in order to answer the question, whether and – if so – how German and Dutch students differ in their way of expressing causality in academic writing. An analysis of German Bachelor’s and Master’s theses written by German and Dutch students showed differences between these groups i... Mehr ...