Recognising coherence: the use of a text game to measure and reinforce awareness of coherence in text  

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Higgins, J.J. ; Lawrie, A.M. ; White, A. Goodith

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: SYSTEM: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 27 no. 3 (Sep. 1999), page 339-349.
Topik: Coherence; Text game; SEQUITUR; Paragraph structure
Fulltext: Higgins_J.J.pdf (147.27KB)

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This paper describes three pilot projects carried out with a special version of a Computer Assisted Language Learning activity, known in its published version under the name SEQUI- TUR, which seeks to develop awareness of cohesive devices and coherence features by dis- playing the start of a text and o?ering possible continuations. Usage logs of responses given by native and non-native speakers of English were examined in order to search for patterns in answer choices and the speed of answering. These patterns have yielded some insights into learners' apparent diculties with discours

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