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Chapter Five   Conclusion ............ 40 
5.1 Major findings of the study ............ 40
5.2 Implications of the study .... 41
5.3 Suggestions for future study ........... 42 

Chapter Four   Results and Discussion  

In  this  chapter,  I  am  going  to  answer  my  research  questions:  What  hedges  are used and how they are distributed in the TEM compositions by Chinese English-major students at different English levels? What are the similarities and differences between Chinese  English-major  students  at  different  levels  of  in  terms  of  uses  of  hedges  in their  TEM  compositions?  Is  there  significant  correlation  among  these  students  at different proficiencies in uses of hedges in TEM compositions? 

4.1   Hedges used and distributed in the TEM compositions 
In accordance with Table-4.1, generally speaking, the 2004 TEM-8 writings with higher  score  featured  relatively  higher  frequency  of  using  hedges  and  there  was steadily increase in using of hedges with rising scores. The frequency of using hedges in  articles  written  by  the  Advanced  group  was  19.95  per  1000  words,  whereas  that used  by  the  Less  advanced  group  was  14.75  per  1000  words.  That  is  to  say  articles written  by  English-major  college  students  of  higher  English  level  in  2004  TEM-8 featured relatively more hedges that those written by learners of lower English ability. In terms of categories, the higher frequency of using Approximator was 15.65 and in the articles written by the Advanced group again, while the lower frequency of using it  was  in  those  writings  written  by  the  Less  advanced  group,  which  was  less  3.38 words per 1000 words than Advanced group. Furthermore, as for the sub-categories of Approximator,  the  frequency  of  using  Adaptors  by  the  Advanced  group  was  11.63, which  was  higher  2.36  words  than  that  by  the  Less  advanced  group.  As  for  the Rounders, however, it was the same situation as Approximator: Advanced group used more  frequency  of  Rounders  in  the  TEM-8  writings  than  the  Less  advanced  group. Meanwhile,  in  terms  of  categories,  the  frequency  of  using  Shield  by  the  Advanced group  was  4.30,  which  was  almost  double  the  frequency  used  by  the  Less  advanced group. In 2004 Tem-8 writings collected in the data, students who got 7 and 8 marks never  used  Shield.  Moreover,  as  for  the  sub-categories  of  Shield,  the  frequency  of using  Plausibility本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。