Textual cohesion : an analysis of ESL students' oral narratives
| dc.contributor.author | West, Elizabeth Norah | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-15T20:15:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-08-15T20:15:05Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 1985 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 1985 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Linguistics | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | A growing body of linguistic research, in the study of both first and second language, examines language beyond the sentence and focuses instead on discourse or text, either oral or written, as the unit of analysis. Textual cohesion, the semantic relations between sentences, provides some of the resources that a speaker or writer draws upon when constructing a text. These devices, termed cohesive ties, include reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction and lexical cohesion. Drawing on the research in both first and second language cohesion studies, this research reports the use of cohesive devices by adult English as a Second Language (ESL) students. The questions addressed are (1) What cohesive devices do these subjects use to maintain the flow of spoken discourse? (2) What , if any , is the difference among the levels of proficiency? (3) What problems arise? In order to address these three questions , oral narratives from twenty-eight Quebecois students in the summer English Language Program at the University of Victoria were elicited and analyzed for cohesive devices. | |
| dc.format.extent | 167 pages | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/20077 | |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.title | Textual cohesion : an analysis of ESL students' oral narratives | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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