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A Preliminary Investigation into the Effect of Grammatical Cohesive Devices--Their Absence and Their Misuse--on Native Speaker Comprehension of Non-Native Speaker Speech and Writing.
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Koshik, Irene – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1999
Investigates native speakers' (NS) perceptions of coherence and comprehensibility of nonnative speakers' writing and talk that lacks or misuses grammatical cohesive devices. NS readers of NNS texts with missing cohesive devices assumed coherence and imposed coherence on the text by adding grammatical cohesive devices missing in the original,…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Grammar, Listening Comprehension, Native Speakers