خلاصة:
This study aims to understand certain linguistic and semantic resources for the text construction, namely the constructs of cohesion, coherence. The analysis of cohesive ties was conducted on the writing samples of 40 subjects (20 most coherent and 20 least coherent) Iranian undergraduates of English. This prompted us to identify the dominant types of cohesive devices used in most coherent writing samples. The analysis of data revealed that both the writing samples were found highly dense in the use of reference. The correlation analysis also didn’t show any overlap between the referential ties and coherence.. Hence, we can claim that referential ties don’t play any role in making a text coherent. Among the five major types of cohesive classes, substitution and ellipsis were found least frequently used in both the writing samples. Their occurrence was less than 1%. It, therefore, seems that the two types of cohesive devices aren’t widely used in written discourse. In the collective data, since, their occurrence is not even noticed in any of the writing scripts where as they could be the most dominant type of cohesion of spoken discourse.
ملخص الجهاز:
"Reference, Conjunctions, Substitutions, Ellipsis and Lexical Ties Reference: The sub domains or types of references as cohesive ties and their relative frequencies observed in the writing samples are given in Table 2.
Conclusion and Pedagogical Implications The linguistic analysis of the study was conducted on the writing samples of 40 subjects (20 good and 20 poor) to investigate the nature of cohesive ties used in the communicative writing of Iranian as foreign learners of English.
This also prompted us to identify the dominant types of cohesive devices used by good student writers which not only enriched our understanding of the distribution of cohesive ties used in communicative writing tasks but their occurrences also shed light on our explicit realization of the role of specific type of cohesive markers which distinguish good writing from poor writing samples in terms of coherence and the quality of discourse.
Out of the five main classes of cohesive devices, the writing scripts of both good and poor students were found highly dense in the use of reference, lexical cohesion and conjunctions.
Although, the use of demonstrative pronouns was found to be relatively higher in good writing samples as they refer to the location of something that has already been mentioned in the prior sentences, only moderate correlation was noticed between demonstrative pronouns and coherence.
e. synonyms, collocation, repetition were found to be relatively higher in good writing samples and a significantly high correlation was noticed between coherence and repetition of lexical items, collocation and total number of lexical ties."