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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
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Bae, Jungok – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 2001
Investigates the nature of cohesion, content, and grammar emergent in children's essays, with emphasis on understanding of cohesion and coherence. Conceptual definitions of these constructs are summarized into a picture-based narrative writing task for elicitation and scoring criteria for quantification. First and second graders from an immersion…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary Education, English (Second Language)