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Download full textLeo, Krista – TESL Canada Journal, 2012
This study examines how three age-on-arrival (AOA) groups of Chinese-background ESL students use two types of cohesive devices on a standardized essay exam. A discourse analysis of 90 first-year students' expository writing samples was conducted to ascertain how factors such as first language (L1) and length of residence (LOR) in Canada influence…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewedGeva, Esther – TESL Canada Journal, 1986
A study of native English-speakers' (N=36) and English-as-a-second-language students' (N=60) understanding of conjunctions while reading indicated that more advanced ESL students were more capable of inferencing or using available logical relationships than were intermediate ESL students. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Conjunctions, Connected Discourse
Peer reviewedBrulhart, Marilyn – TESL Canada Journal, 1986
A study comparing the speech used by English-as-a-second-language teachers (N=4) when instructing beginning- and advanced-level adult classes found that display questions and self-repetitions were used much less often with advanced students, suggesting that students are being prepared, as they advance in classes, for real communicative…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Classroom Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages)
