scholarly journals A Cross-Linguistic Approach to Analysing Cohesive Devices in Expository Writing by Asian EFL Teachers

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-30
Author(s):  
Bui Phu Hung ◽  
Quang Nhat Nguyen ◽  
Loc Tan Nguyen ◽  
Nguyen Thi Viet
Keyword(s):  
Expository Writing ◽  
Cohesive Devices ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Linguistic Approach

scholarly journals Cohesive Devices In EFL Students’ Expository Writing

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Hanif Nurcholish Adiantika
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Expository Writing ◽  
Lexical Cohesion ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
The Core ◽  
Logical Connection ◽  
Cohesive Devices ◽  
Twelfth Grade ◽  
Efl Students

This study aims to investigate the use of cohesive devices in students’ expository writing. In particular, the study focuses on types of cohesive device used by the students and how cohesive devices contribute to their writing. This study employs qualitative research through a case study design. Public senior high school in Kuningan is chosen as the site for this study. Nine students of twelfth grade are involved in the study as the respondents. Documents of nine students’ expository writings are the data of this study. The data are analyzed by using the concept of cohesive devices proposed by Halliday and Hasan (1976) which covers reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction, and lexical cohesion. Analyses show that the respondents only use four cohesive devices in their writing i.e. reference, substitution, conjunction, and lexical cohesion. These devices also contribute to the process of keeping track of the participants, avoiding repetition and text redundancy, enhancing logical connection between parts of text, and engaging the readers to the core argument of the text. The study infers that it is still problematic although most of the students apply many cohesive devices in their writing. This is because students have not received sufficient training concerning how to use appropriate cohesive devices. Therefore, they should be guided to utilize appropriate cohesive devices in their writing.Keywords: cohesive devices, cohesion, EFL students, expository writing, case study

scholarly journals EFFECTIVENESS OF EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION OF COHESIVE DEVICES ON IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS' WRITING DEVELOPMENT

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Hossein Kargar Behbahani ◽  
Ali Akbar Jabbari ◽  
Amir Hamed Dolatabadi Farahani
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Explicit Instruction ◽  
Writing Development ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Cohesive Devices ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
University Level

The present study aims to investigate the effect of explicit instruction of cohesion and coherence in Iranian EFL learners' writing development. Cohesion and coherence are both important concepts which cover a large number of discourse features of texts that need to be mastered by language learners. The aim, then, is to determine whether the students' writing ability would be improved when teachers explicitly teach these ideas in their classes. In order to achieve the aims, the described methodology has been used. The sample has been randomly chosen from students of English at university level. The results of the Independent-sample T-tests administered showed that for both males and females, the explicit group outperformed the control group and also the higher the proficiency of learners, the better their writing ability. The implication of the study is that ESL/EFL teachers can implement explicit instruction of cohesion and coherence to better teach their students how to write a coherent piece of discourse.

A Christmas Carol: Disability Conceptualised through Empathy and the Philosophy of ‘Technologically Useful Bodies’

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-191
Author(s):  
Ester Vidović
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Models ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
Image Schemas ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Linguistic Approach

The article explores how two cultural models which were dominant in Great Britain during the Victorian era – the model based on the philosophy of ‘technologically useful bodies’ and the Christian model of empathy – were connected with the understanding of disability. Both cultural models are metaphorically constituted and based on the ‘container’ and ‘up and down’ image schemas respectively. 1 The intersubjective character of cultural models is foregrounded, in particular, in the context of conceiving of abstract concepts such as emotions and attitudes. The issue of disability is addressed from a cognitive linguistic approach to literary analysis while studying the reflections of the two cultural models on the portrayal of the main characters of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. The studied cultural models appeared to be relatively stable, while their evaluative aspects proved to be subject to historical change. The article provides incentives for further study which could include research on the connectedness between, on one hand, empathy with fictional characters roused by reading Dickens's works and influenced by cultural models dominant during the Victorian period in Britain and, on the other hand, the contemporaries’ actual actions taken to ameliorate the social position of the disabled in Victorian Britain.

Drowning in negativism, self-hate, doubt, madness: Linguistic insights into Sylvia Plath’s experience of depression

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zsófia Demjén
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Linguistic Methods ◽  
Linguistic Approach

This paper demonstrates how a range of linguistic methods can be harnessed in pursuit of a deeper understanding of the ‘lived experience’ of psychological disorders. It argues that such methods should be applied more in medical contexts, especially in medical humanities. Key extracts from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath are examined, as a case study of the experience of depression. Combinations of qualitative and quantitative linguistic methods, and inter- and intra-textual comparisons are used to consider distinctive patterns in the use of metaphor, personal pronouns and (the semantics of) verbs, as well as other relevant aspects of language. Qualitative techniques provide in-depth insights, while quantitative corpus methods make the analyses more robust and ensure the breadth necessary to gain insights into the individual experience. Depression emerges as a highly complex and sometimes potentially contradictory experience for Plath, involving both a sense of apathy and inner turmoil. It involves a sense of a split self, trapped in a state that one cannot overcome, and intense self-focus, a turning in on oneself and a view of the world that is both more negative and more polarized than the norm. It is argued that a linguistic approach is useful beyond this specific case.

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