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Olympia Tsaknaki – European Journal of Education (EJED), 2022
Grammatical and lexical cohesion are necessary conditions to guarantee a text's coherence (Halliday and Hasan 1976). Grammatical cohesion is classified into four types of relation: reference, conjunction, substitution, and ellipsis. This study aims to investigate the use of the cohesive device of reference in written discourse produced by…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computational Linguistics
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Crossley, Scott A.; Rose, Dani Francuz; Danekes, Cassondra; Rose, Charles Wesley; McNamara, Danielle S. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
This paper examines the effects of attended and unattended demonstratives on text processing, comprehension, and writing quality in two studies. In the first study, participants (n = 45) read 64 mini-stories in a self-paced reading task and identified the main referent in the clauses. The sentences varied in the type of demonstratives (i.e., this,…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Connected Discourse