A Study on Cohesion in the Writing of EFL Undergraduate Students

Autor/inn/en	Wahid, Rizwana; Wahid, Anjum
Titel	A Study on Cohesion in the Writing of EFL Undergraduate Students
Quelle	In: Journal on English Language Teaching, 10 (2020) 1, S.57-68 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2231-3338
Schlagwörter	Connected Discourse; Foreign Countries; Writing Instruction; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Undergraduate Students; Academic Language; Writing (Composition); Essays; Persuasive Discourse; Student Attitudes; Grammar; Vocabulary; Phrase Structure; Form Classes (Languages); Word Frequency; Writing Evaluation; Teaching Methods; Saudi Arabia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Schreibunterricht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Academic; Language; Languages; Akademiker; Sprache; Wissenschaftssprache; Schreibübung; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Schülerverhalten; Grammatik; Wortschatz; Phrasenstruktur; Analytischer Sprachbau; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Saudi-Arabien
Abstract	This empirical study attempts to examine the use of cohesive devices in the written discourse of EFL undergraduate students and seeks to find how the use of incorrect and repetitive cohesive ties affects the effectiveness of academic writing. Halliday and Hasan's (1976) list of cohesive devices was employed to analyze the cohesion in the descriptive, process analysis, and argumentative essay writing of the Saudi students. The researchers investigated the quantity of various cohesive ties and its effect and relation on the quality of writing. The data were collected from fifteen EFL students of the second year pursuing B.A. For data collection, the instruments were five descriptive, five narrative, and five argumentative essays. These essays were analyzed in terms of grammatical cohesion-reference, substitution, ellipsis, lexical-reiteration, collocation, and lexico-grammatical cohesion-conjunction. The results indicated that learners made ample use of cohesive ties with the overuse of reference particularly pronouns and reiteration, especially repetition of words while ignoring or underusing other cohesive devices, such as substitution, ellipsis, synonymy, antonymy, collocation, and conjunction, thereby implying the inappropriate use of linkers in their writing. Sometimes they provide a linker that is not needed, and other times, they use them in abundance without being required in the text. The inappropriate occurrence and excessive frequency of pronouns and repetition of the same lexical items lead to non-cohesive writing affecting its structure and meaning. The researchers recommended some suggestions based on the findings to imply in the pedagogy of writing. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01