The use of cohesive devices in argumentative writing by Chinese EFL learners at different proficiency levels

Yang, Wenxing; Sun, Ying

doi:10.1016/j.linged.2011.09.004

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“…In this style, the writer's position regarding a controversial issue is announced at the beginning of the essay, and then a chain of reasons or explanations are given for the position (e.g., Daly, 1997; Hawthorn English Language Centres, 1997). At the same time, cohesion functions to organize relevant information orderly and binds a text as a unified whole (Yang & Sun, 2012). It is a property of a text and is usually carried out through cohesive devices such as references, conjunctions, ellipsis/substitution, and lexical cohesion (IELTS, 2007;Yang & Sun, 2012;Bastukmen & Randow, 2014).…”

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“…At the same time, cohesion functions to organize relevant information orderly and binds a text as a unified whole (Yang & Sun, 2012). It is a property of a text and is usually carried out through cohesive devices such as references, conjunctions, ellipsis/substitution, and lexical cohesion (IELTS, 2007;Yang & Sun, 2012;Bastukmen & Randow, 2014). Use of cohesive devices does not always ensure cohesion (Crossley, Kyle, & McNamara, 2016); therefore, effective use of these devices is important.…”

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Criteria and Scale for Argumentation

Kaewpet

2018

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Abstract-This paper presents an updated and practical criteria and scale for teaching, learning, and evaluating argumentation. The ability criteria and scale is generated from existing knowledge of argumentation as expected by CEFR, TOEFL and IELTS, as well as recent interest in argumentation. Examination of the academic literature suggests that the new criteria and scale should consider relevancy, reasoning, language use, organization and writer's voice. Relevancy has not yet been seriously highlighted in the existing criteria. Reasoning, language use and organization are common criteria in argumentation. Writer's voice is not emphasized in the existing criteria but often discussed in recent publications on argumentation. It is added to the updated framework in this paper to keep up with advancements in the field. This new framework could be a powerful option for teaching, learning and evaluating argumentation particularly in EFL or ESL contexts.

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Criteria and Scale for Argumentation

Kaewpet

2018

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“…Recent studies on cohesion analysis have mainly been carried out on grammatical cohesion (substitution, ellipsis, reference, and conjunction) of written English (Gutwinski, 1976;Stotsky, 1983;BennettKastor, 1986;Coulthard, 1994;Parsons, 1991Parsons, , 1996Rostami Abu-Sa'eedi, 2010). Nevertheless, other languages have been studied in this respect as well, to point out some: (Russian (Simmons, 1981); English-Hindi (Kachroo,1984); English-Persian (Noor-Mohammadi, 1984;San'atifar, 2011);Spanish (Mederos Martín, 1988;Casado Velarde, 1997); English-Japanese (Oshima, 1988); ChineseEnglish (Yang & Sun, 2012);Persian (KavoosiNejad, 1993);Fazl-Ali, 1995;Mozaffar-Zadeh, 1998;Roberts, Barjasteh Delforooz, & Jahani, 2009). To the authors' knowledge, many previous studies have followed Halliday and Hasan's (1976) vision of cohesion to investigate this discourse devices in diverse Persian texts.…”

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“…According to Yang and Sun (2012), it is a set of resources, which avoids full repetition of a clause or an element in the clause and accordingly, the readers can assume that they are to repeat the wording from a previous clause. In ellipsis, a language adheres to economy principle, i.e.…”

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<b>Identity: a cohesive device in some Persian live sport radio and TV talks

Ahangar

Taki

Rahimi

2017

Acta Sci. Lang. Cult.

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ABSTRACT. Identity is a cohesive device that helps to have a better understanding of speech. This article analyzes the identity device and its sub-sets in some Persian live sport radio and TV programs. The theoretical framework of this research is Dooley and Levinsohn (2001). A data-driven approach based on the access to the detailed discourse context was used to have a reliable sample for the research. So, around 200 minutes of 20 different live sport radio and TV programs were transcribed. The authors present the identity extent of functionality via comparing its degree of frequency employing the SPSS software while evaluating the meaningfulness of differences in application of each of its sub-categories. This evidenceoriented research supports that the subcategories of identity can also be studied in Persian in the same way as Dooley and Levinsohn's (2001) view among which pronouns receive the most frequency whereas proforms do the least. Pronouns and ellipsis contain a meaningful difference between their application in radio and TV data. In addition, there is not any significant difference between the applications of repetition, substitution and other pro-forms. Finally, identity is reported as having a significant relation in its application in the research corpora.Keywords: identity, pronouns, pro-forms, ellipsis, substitution, repetition.Identidade: um recurso de coesão em falas de esporte ao vivo em rádios e TVs do Irã RESUMO. A identidade é um recurso coesivo que colabora com uma melhor compreensão da fala. Este artigo analisa o recurso da identidade e seus subconjuntos em programas esportivos, ao vivo, de rádio e TV em persa. O quadro teórico desta pesquisa é Dooley e Levinsohn (2001). Uma abordagem dirigida por dados baseada no acesso ao contexto discursivo detalhado foi utilizada para se obter uma amostra confiável para a pesquisa. Assim, em torno de 200 minutos de 20 diferentes programas ao vivo de esportes de rádio e TV foram transcritos. Os autores apresentam o alcance da identidade da funcionalidade pela comparação de seu grau de frequência empregando o software SPSS enquanto avaliam a significância das diferenças em aplicação de cada uma de suas subcategorias. Esta pesquisa orientada para as evidências sustenta que as subcategorias da identidade também podem ser estudadas em persa, de acordo com as propostas de Dooley e Levinsohn (2001), dentre as quais pronomes recebem a frequência mais alta, ao passo que pró-formas recebem as frequências mais baixas. Pronomes e elipse apresentam diferença significativa entre suas aplicações aos dados do rádio e da TV. Ademais, não há diferença significativa entre as aplicações de repetição, substituição e outras pró-formas. Finalmente, relata-se que a identidade apresenta relação significativa em sua aplicação na pesquisa.

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“…The reason might be the speculativeness of GM and it is also difficult to approach it empirically. To our delight, there are scholars (Derewianka, 1995;Galve, 1998;Ravelli, 1985Ravelli, , 2003Byrness, 2009;Yang & Sun, 2012), presently, who are working on this aspect (e.g. : The textual interplay of GM on nominalization occurring in written medical metaphor; Emergent L2 German writing ability in a curricular context; the use of cohensive devices in argumentative writing), and opening a new vision for the empirical study of GM.…”

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The Relationship between Grammatical Metaphor and Translation from Chinese to English: An Empirical Study Based on a Personal Experience Narrative Text

Zhou¹

2016

IJEL

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Grammatical metaphor is one of the important theories in Systemic-Functional Linguistics. Through an empirical study, this paper analyzes the correlation between grammatical metaphor and its sub-categories and the translating quality of personal experience narrative texts from Chinese to English, and the findings show that grammatical metaphor, especially ideational metaphor, and translating quality are significantly positively correlated. Through analyzing the differences of grammatical metaphor and its sub-categories used by learners of English from different proficiency levels, and the findings show that grammatical metaphor and its sub-categories are significantly different except textual metaphor.Keywords: systemic-functional linguistics, grammatical metaphor, translating quality, empirical study Background InformationGrammatical metaphor or GM, which was firstly proposed by M. A. K. Halliday in his book Introduction to Functional Grammar in 1985, is one of the most fundamental theories in Systemic-Functional linguistics. According to Thompson, GM occurs when a lexicon-grammatical form does not denote its usual meaning (Thompson, 2004). Liu (2007) classified GM and its subcategories in details (Figure 1). Owing to the limitation of GM internal attributes, related researches of GM are practically focused on ideational metaphor. The metaphorical expression of ideational domain contains two kinds of grammatical changes, i.e. "one is the changes of ranks, the other is the changes of structures (Halliday, 1998)." In line with grammatical changes, researchers classified ideational metaphor from two different aspects. One classification realized the semantic units of sequence, figure, and element by rank-shifting metaphorically. The other classification was based on the metaphorical changes from one semantic element to another semantic element. As to the second classification, Halliday (1998) proposed eleven major GM categories, which correspond to the eleven possible changes between five semantic elements and two minor GM categories (Yang, 2008).There are not few examples to apply GM to the study of translation. Foreign scholars are mainly Hatim & Mason (1990, 2001), Bell (1991, 2001), and Baker (1992, 2000. Home scholars also approached to this field (Huang, 2006(Huang, , 2009Wang, 2006). However, there are very few empirical studies about GM. The reason might be the speculativeness of GM and it is also difficult to approach it empirically. To our delight, there are scholars (Derewianka, 1995;Galve, 1998;Ravelli, 1985Ravelli, , 2003 Byrness, 2009;Yang & Sun, 2012), presently, who are working on this aspect (e.g.: The textual interplay of GM on nominalization occurring in written medical metaphor; Emergent L2 German writing ability in a curricular context; the use of cohensive devices in argumentative writing), and opening a new vision for the empirical study of GM.

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The use of cohesive devices in argumentative writing by Chinese EFL learners at different proficiency levels

Cited by 117 publications

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Criteria and Scale for Argumentation

Criteria and Scale for Argumentation

<b>Identity: a cohesive device in some Persian live sport radio and TV talks

The Relationship between Grammatical Metaphor and Translation from Chinese to English: An Empirical Study Based on a Personal Experience Narrative Text

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