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van Hell, Janet G.; Verhoeven, Ludo; van Beijsterveldt, Liesbeth M. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
How do beginning and skilled writers compose a text in the course of time? To gain insight into the temporal aspects of planning and translating activities during writing, this article examined writing in real time and analyzed pause time patterns in writing in relation to linguistic characteristics of the written product. Fourth-grade children…
Descriptors: Linguistics, English (Second Language), Writing (Composition), Time
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De Vega, Manuel; Rinck, Mike; Diaz, Jose; Leon, Inmaculada – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2007
Multiclause sentences with the temporal adverbs "while" or "when" referring to simultaneous events (e.g., "While [when] John was writing a letter, Mary comes into the room") were compared in German and Spanish. Following Talmy (2001), we assumed that the event in the main clause is the figure (F; the event to be located in time), and the event in…
Descriptors: Sentences, Form Classes (Languages), German, English (Second Language)
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Kang, Jennifer Yusun – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
This study examined Korean English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' ability to establish textual cohesion in English through appropriate selection of reference forms and reference management strategies in their written narrative discourse. It employed both quantitative and qualitative analysis to explore how the language-specific reference…
Descriptors: Korean, Native Speakers, Language Acquisition, Nouns