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Investigating Difficulties Faced by EFL Students in Using Grammatical Cohesion and coherence in Written Discourse
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Ahmed, Mahmoud Ali |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | This study investigates the difficulties Faced by EFL Students in Using Grammatical Cohesion and coherence in Written Discourse. It hypothesizes that there are different types of grammatical cohesive ties errors used by Sudanese university students in written discourse and less skilled students use fewer grammatical cohesive ties of a well-written text is one of the main reasons for the bad quality of EFL students’ academic writings . This study aims at investigating types of cohesive ties is used by ELF students in written discourse. It is an attempt to provide facts about coherence and cohesive ties in written discourse. The study method used was the descriptive, qualitative analytic method. The study concludes that these second year students of Sudan have real problems in discourse features (grammatical cohesion ties and coherence) which, as statistically verified, affect their written performance. This has been supported by the results of the first research tool; the test. The statistical analysis for the test respondents' answers reveal that second year students of English language are so poor in writing as they lack the practical experience of these discourse features of cohesion and coherence. It recommends that There should be free test for the university students before they start writing course to identify how weak are they in using grammatical cohesion ties and coherence. The weak students should attend intensive courses in grammatical cohesion ties, writing, vocabulary, and discourse analysis; according to the points of their Mahmoud Ali Ahmed, Elghali Mahmoud Seddaig-Investigating Difficulties Faced by EFL Students in Using Grammatical Cohesion and coherence in Written Discourse EUROPEAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH Vol. VII, Issue 2 / May 2019 1596 weakness. More systematic assignments on the use of discourse features (cohesion &coherence) should be applied and practiced, until teachers make sure that these students do not have any discourse problem. Teachers should follow the updated theories of text linguistics as well as the modern approaches of teaching writing such as interdisciplinary socialization approaches that teach writing skill at two levels: linguistic level and conceptual level; each according to the genre to which it belongs. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://euacademic.org/UploadArticle/4012.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
