Putting Cohesion in Its Place : Justifications for Teaching Sentence Cohesion in EFL Writing Classes

• 영문명: Putting Cohesion in Its Place : Justifications for Teaching Sentence Cohesion in EFL Writing Classes
• 발행기관: 한국영어학학회
• 저자명: Taehyon Park
• 간행물 정보: 『영어학연구』영어학연구 제19호, 201~214쪽, 전체 14쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.06.01

영문 초록

This paper seeks to examine why cohesion should not be marginalized in EFL writing in terms of clear communication between readers and writers. A text's clarity depends, to a large extent, on the degree to which the text is coherent. The extent of coherence then concerns the writer's ability to connect the ideas across sentences, that is, sentence cohesion. This type of ability appears to be an essential component of good writing, in that writers and readers normally do not shape a shared context due to the absence of immediacy of face-to-face interaction between them It is argued that creating a framework of shared context in written discourse is no easy task for EFL writers. This paper indicates that EFL writers need to be aware of the role of cohesion in producing a good piece of writing. Particularly, those writers should be helped to realize why cohesion matters in writing in terms of making a text more reader-friendly.

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Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Meeting Reader Expectations

3. Cohesion vs. Coherence

4. Differences between Spoken and Written Language

5. Writer Responsibility

6. Conclusions and Implications

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