Cross-Cultural and Cross-Proficiency Analysis of Selected Cohesion Indices in Student Essays

• Main Author: Morallo, Audrey Buenavista
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2024
• Subjects: cohesion; cohesion indices; L2 writing; intercultural communication; Applied Linguistics; Discourse and Text Linguistics; First and Second Language Acquisition; Language and Literacy Education
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/jeal/vol3/iss1/7; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/jeal/article/1100/viewcontent/6morallo.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

Cohesion is important in writing because of its role in writing quality development (Abdi Tabari & Johnson, 2023) and in making texts comprehensible (Ghasemi, 2013). It can differentiate between proficient and deficient writing (Crossley et al., 2016b, 2019), demonstrating its use as an index of...