Discourse analysis is gaining its prominence in teaching reading. The paper presents an example of analyzing the system of reference and lexical cohesion of a news report. It demonstrates how to involve discourse anal...Discourse analysis is gaining its prominence in teaching reading. The paper presents an example of analyzing the system of reference and lexical cohesion of a news report. It demonstrates how to involve discourse analysis into the teaching of newspaper reading in order to make students get a clear framework of reference and lexical cohesion in a functional-grammar-conscious manner.展开更多
This study aims to discover the features of lexical cohesion in Chinese college EFL Writing:whether a particular type of lexical cohesion dominates student writing,how much lexical cohesion is affected by language pro...This study aims to discover the features of lexical cohesion in Chinese college EFL Writing:whether a particular type of lexical cohesion dominates student writing,how much lexical cohesion is affected by language proficiency and text type.Results indicated a sub-category of lexical cohesive device,exact repetition,had overwhelming dominance in Chinese college EFL writing.Writers' use of lexical cohesive devices was not affected by language proficiency,but partly influenced by writing in different text types.There was no correlation between reiteration ties and text type,but students used significantly more collocation ties in narration than argumentation.展开更多
文摘Discourse analysis is gaining its prominence in teaching reading. The paper presents an example of analyzing the system of reference and lexical cohesion of a news report. It demonstrates how to involve discourse analysis into the teaching of newspaper reading in order to make students get a clear framework of reference and lexical cohesion in a functional-grammar-conscious manner.
文摘This study aims to discover the features of lexical cohesion in Chinese college EFL Writing:whether a particular type of lexical cohesion dominates student writing,how much lexical cohesion is affected by language proficiency and text type.Results indicated a sub-category of lexical cohesive device,exact repetition,had overwhelming dominance in Chinese college EFL writing.Writers' use of lexical cohesive devices was not affected by language proficiency,but partly influenced by writing in different text types.There was no correlation between reiteration ties and text type,but students used significantly more collocation ties in narration than argumentation.
