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Download full textLeo, Krista – TESL Canada Journal, 2012
This study examines how three age-on-arrival (AOA) groups of Chinese-background ESL students use two types of cohesive devices on a standardized essay exam. A discourse analysis of 90 first-year students' expository writing samples was conducted to ascertain how factors such as first language (L1) and length of residence (LOR) in Canada influence…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis
Direct linkGagne, Christina L.; Spalding, Thomas L. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
The present experiments investigate the influence of modifier relation frequency and discourse context on the interpretation of novel noun-noun phrases (as measured by both the ease of interpretation and the types of interpretations that are provided). We assess whether people access knowledge about the relations with which the modifier is…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Concept Formation, Nouns, Phrase Structure
