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Direct linkCastro, Carolyn D. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2004
This study compares the degree of cohesion and coherence in the essays written by thirty Filipino college freshmen and analyzes how the social construction of meaning was made evident in their writing. Results showed that low, mid and highly rated essays were comparable in grammatical cohesive device use. Lexical repetition and use of synonyms…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Languages, Essays, College Freshmen
