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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Lexical cohesion"”.
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Patterns of Lexical Cohesion in a Multiple-Choice Cloze Test: Differences Between English as a Second Language Learners and Native Speakers of American English
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 69218 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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Different or similar: patterns of lexical cohesion in Chinese non-narrative text and their applications in the study of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language-A corpus-based contrastive study
… study identifies and investigates patterns of lexical, cohesive devices in Chinese argument texts by two groups of writers: native speakers and learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language (hereafter CFL). The purposes of the research are twofold: first to inform instruction in the writing of …
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Oral and Written Discourse in Adolescents With Closed Head Injury
… [productivity, efficiency, semantic ties (lexical, incomplete, elliptical), maze use, coherence (global, local)] were utilized in this study. Participant performance was viewed according to cognitive-linguistic skills (scores on the Scales of Cognitive Abilities for Traumatic Brain Injury), …
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Tone sandhi in Xiangshan Wu Chinese and beyond: patterns of variation and diachronic development
… typological observations across Northern Wu: lexical compounds and adjective-noun phrases (Chapter 4) share broadly left-dominant sandhi (LDS), while verb-object phrases (Chapter 5) typically exhibit right-dominant sandhi (RDS). Chapter 6 extends the analysis to trisyllabic domains, which …
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A STUDY OF COHESION AS A TEXT-FORMING RESOURCE IN THE ACADEMIC WRITING OF SAUDI UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (EFL)
… the study attempted to explain the use of cohesion in the creation of texture, and in the rhetorical structure of the sample texts. Structured questionnaires and interviews were also used to gauge the perceptions of the teachers and the students about the teaching and learning of academic …