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Direct linkYang, Wenxing; Sun, Ying – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2012
This article reports on a study that comparatively investigated the differences and similarities in the (incorrect) use of cohesive devices by second-year and fourth-year undergraduate Chinese EFL learners in their argumentative writings. Via detailed analysis of the quantitative and qualitative data, this study seeks to reveal if the patterns of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Connected Discourse, Language Proficiency
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
Gaies, Stephen J. – 1976
The present study reports on exploratory research to determine whether the Aluminum Paragraph, a sentence-combining exercise developed by O'Donnell (Hunt, 1970) to measure the development of syntactic complexity in the writing of native speakers of English, can also serve as a measure of the active syntactic proficiency of learners of English as a…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Learning Levels
