The Contribution of Lexical Cohesion to the Text Cohesion in EFL Students’ Expository Texts

Coherence structure and lexical cohesion in expository and persuasive texts

Discourse and Cohesion in Expository Text

This paper discusses tile role of disconrse in expository text; text which typically comprises published scholarly papers, textbooks, proceedings of conferences, and other highly stylized documents. Our purpose is to examine the extent to which those discourse-related phenomena that generally assist the analysis of dialogue text -where speaker, hearer, and speech-act information are more active...

The Subjectivity of Lexical Cohesion in Text

A reader’s perception of even an “objective” text is to some degree subjective. We present the results of a pilot study in which we looked at the degree of subjectivity in readers’ perceptions of lexical semantic relations, which are the building blocks of the lexical chains used in many applications in natural language processing. An example is presented in which the subjectivity reflects the ...

Readers’ Perceptions of Lexical Cohesion in Text

Preliminary results from an experimental study of readers’ perceptions of lexical cohesion and lexical semantic relations in text are presented. Readers agree on a common “core” of groups of related words and exhibit individual differences. The majority of relations reported are “non-classical” (not hyponymy, meronymy, synonymy, or antonymy). A group of commonly used relations is presented. The...

the impact of musical texts on the text recall of young learners of english in isfahan junior high schools

abstract although music possesses some kind of power and using it has been welcome by many students in language classrooms, it seems that they take a non-serious image of the lesson while listening to songs and they may think that it is a matter of fun. the main objective of the present study was to investigate whether learning a foreign language through musical texts (songs) can have an impac...