MORPHOSYNTACTIC FEATURES OF DECEPTION ON ENGLISH TEXT WRITTEN BY EFL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS = MORPHOSYNTACTIC FEATURES OF DECEPTION ON ENGLISH TEXT WRITTEN BY EFL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

This research aims to identify: (1) the morphosyntactic features of Deception on English text written by EFL University students, and (2) the significant differences of morphosyntactic features of deception on English text written by native English and EFL University students.
The method used in this researchwas a descriptive-quantitative method. The data were taken from 10 participants who wrote deceptive and truthful stories. The words from the stories were calculated using corpus or word-count tools to obtain the total number of word sand the percentage of each category.
The results show that the Morphosyntactic features of deception on English text written by EFL University students consist of more quantity, less complexity, more uncertainty, more diversity, less specificity, and less emotiveness. Moreover, the differences of the cues shown by native English speakers and EFL university students lay on the category of quantity, diversity, non-immediacy, and the use of modality and third-person pronoun.

Keywords : Morphosyntactic features of Deception; Deceptive Text; Truthful Text; EFL University students.