| 词条 | T-unit |
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In linguistics, the term T-unit was coined by Kellogg Hunt in 1965.[1] It is defined as the "shortest grammatically allowable sentences into which (writing can be split) or minimally terminable unit." Often, but not always, a T-unit is a sentence. More technically, a T-unit is a dominant clause and its dependent clauses: as Hunt said, it is "one main clause with all subordinate clauses attached to it" (Hunt 1965:20). T-units are often used in the analysis of written and spoken discourse, such as in studies on errors in second language writing. The number of error-free T-units may be counted, as in Robb et al. (1986),[2] or changes in accuracy per T-unit over drafts of compositions may be measured (Sachs and Polio, 2007).[3] Young (1995)[4] gives some examples of what a T-unit is and is not:
References1. ^Hunt, K. (1965). Grammatical structures written at three grade levels. NCTE Research report No. 3. Champaign, IL, USA: NCTE. 2. ^Robb, T., Ross, S., & Shortreed, I. (1986). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3586390 Salience of feedback on error and its effect on EFL writing quality]. TESOL Quarterly, 20, 83–93. 3. ^Sachs, R. and Polio, C. (2007).Learners' uses of two types of written feedback on a L2 writing revision task. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 29:67-100. 4. ^Young, R. (1995). Conversational Styles in Language Proficiency Interviews. Language Learning 45/1:3–42. See also
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