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The Importance of Cohesive Conditions to Perceptions of Writing Quality at the Early Stages of Foreign Language Learning.
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Chiang, Steve – System, 2003
Investigated the effect of grammatical and discourse features on rater perceptions of writing quality in evaluating foreign language writing samples. Also investigated differences in rating profiles between native and nonnative speaking raters. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), College Students, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Testing for a Hierarchy of the Communicative Interference Value of ESL Errors.
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Dordick, Michael – System, 1996
Examines methodology used to determine a hierarchy of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students' written error gravity and describes a new error substitution methodology for identifying the communicative interference effect of ESL errors on naive native speakers of English. Findings indicate that lexical and verb-related errors interfered with…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Communication (Thought Transfer), English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)