PE 77

The Relationship between using cohesive ties in EFL learners writing skills an​d their writing profici....

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95/11/4

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فريدون وحداني

نيلوفر منصوري

proficiency levels , cohesion , references , lexical cohesion , conjunction

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Concept of cohesion was first introduced by Halliday an​d Hassan in 1976. They defined it as a glue that stick concepts of the text together an​d make the text understandable for readers o​r hearers. As writing has a prior role in academic tests like IELTS an​d TOEFEL, the concept of cohesion becomes important for EFL learners. Even the scoring of these exams are partially according to cohesion. This study was designed to find out the relationship that exists between learners’ proficiency levels an​d their use of cohesive devices. Fifty learners were selected from Rasht Azad University. They were asked to write an essay about the “role of technology in our lives”. Their papers were scored against IELTS band score criteria to define their proficiency levels. They were divided into two groups of intermediate an​d advanced learners. After collecting data, Pearson was run to find out the relationship between the proficiency levels an​d use of cohesive ties. The results showed that intermediate learners used more references, while advanced learners tended to use other cohesive devices like lexical cohesion, conjunctions, ellipses an​d substitution. Running Chi-square an​d eta proved that advanced learners used more cohesive devices an​d also it was shown that substitution was used least by learners.

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