The development of cohesion in a learner corpus
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2013-03
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Zakład Filologii Angielskiej Wydział Pedagogiczno-Artystyczny Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Kaliszu
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This study examines the use of cohesive devices (pragmatic markers and
conjunctions) in a 24,000-word corpus of transcribed oral data from 47 learners
and native speakers of English. Both of these cohesive devices increase with
proficiency level, but not in the same way. Conjunction use seems to increase
steadily, and only the differences between the highest and lowest proficiency
levels were found to be statistically significant. Pragmatic marker use, however,
remains fairly stable across the three lowest proficiency levels and rises drastically
for the two highest proficiency levels, and the two higher proficiency levels are
significantly different from the two lower levels in their use of pragmatic markers.
The results are compared to native speaker rates of cohesive device use for the
same tasks and under the same conditions.
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proficiency level, cohesive device, pragmatic marker, conjunction, cohesion
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Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2013, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 109-130.
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2083 5205