Cohesion and The Teaching of EFL Reading  

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Mei-Yun, Yue

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: ENGLISH TEACHING FORUM (http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/forum/archives.html) vol. 31 no. 1 (Jan. 1993), page 12-15.
Topik: COHESION; cohesion; teaching; EFL reading
Fulltext: Cohension and Teaching.pdf (73.91KB)

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Reading is an interactive process of communication. The interaction between the writer and the reader is made possible via the text. It is through the text that the writer encodes his message, and it is also through the text that the reader gets the meaning of the message by decoding it. What is a text ? According to Halliday and Hasan (1976), it is “a semantic uni t: a unit not of form but of meaning. . . . A text may be spoken or written, prose or verse, dialogue or monologue. It may be anything from a single proverb to a whole play, from a momentary cry for help to an all - day discussion on a committee. . . . Most texts extend well beyond the confines of a single sentence.” A text is distinguished from a nontext by its texture. The texture is primarily provided by cohesion, which is a semantic concept, which “refers to relations of meaning that exist within the text, and that define it as a text. Cohesion occurs where the interpretation of some element in the discourse is dependent on that of another. The one presupposes the other, in the sense that it cannot be effectively decoded except by recourse to it. Since the speaker or writer uses cohesion to signal texture, the listener or reader has to react to it in order to interpret it” (Halliday and Hasan 1976).

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