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Eun, Ho-yoon. “A Comparative Analysis of Conjunctive Adverbials Between Korean EFL and Native English Writers in English Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations.” Studies in English Education & Literature. 42.2 (2016): 239-262. The aim of the study is to compare the use of some conjunctive adverbials between Korean EFL writers and native English writers in academic writing. For this study, ten English abstracts of doctoral dissertations in sociology were adopted for the corpus. Five of them were written by Korean EFL writers and the rest were written by native English writers. Of various conjunctive adverbials, resultive and concessive adverbials were chosen for this study. Frequency, preference and synthetic positions in the sentences were compared between both groups. Results are as follows : First, Korean EFL writers used both adverbials more often than native English writers. This is explained in that while Korean EFL writers rely on these adverbials heavily in order to express and confirm sentence relativity, native English writers do not depend on them much. Second, the resultive adverbial favored the most by Korean EFL writers was therefore, and the concessive adverbial preferred above all by Korean EFL writers was however. native English writers showed balanced use of adverbials. Third, while Korean EFL writers put most of resultive adverbials in the sentence-initial position, they put more concessive adverbials in non sentence-initial positions. This phenomenon may have resulted from the interference of L1 and the result of conventional English education in Korea. (Chonbuk National University)