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1、CoherenceandtheTeachingofEFLWritingWritingisoneofthefourbasicabilities(listening,speaking,readingandwriting)thatanEnglishlearnerasaforeignlanguagelearnershouldhave.Butwritingwellisnotaneasytask.Anexcellentwritershouldhavenotonlyagoodcommandofgrammar,butalsoshouldknowhowtomakehiscompositioncoher
2、entinstructureandcontent.MyexperienceinteachingwritingtoundergraduatesatCentralSouthUniversityshowsthatincoherenceisarecurringprobleminthestudents’writingandcanbeamajorobstacletotheirsuccessinwritingclasses.“Icannotfollowyourargument”and“Idonotunderstandwhatyouaresaying”arejusttwoofthecommentsw
3、rittenonstudent’spaperstoindicatetheinabilityofthepaperstobeunderstoodbytheirteachers.Unfortunately,unlikegrammaticalerrorswhichcanbeeasilycorrected,errorsincoherencearemoredifficulttohandleastheyinvolveachunkofunits,suchasaseriesofsentencesandparagraphs.MostESLteachersmaybelievethattheyhavease
4、nseofwhatcoherenceis,buttheyoftendiscusscoherencewiththeirstudentsinvagueterms.Asaresult,studentsdonothaveaclearunderstandingoftheconceptofcoherence,oftenfocusingonlyonerrorsatsentencelevelwhenaskedtorevisetheirownworkorthatoftheircolleagues.Coherenceisanareathatdeservesteacher’sattention.Thisp
5、aperaimsatmakingstudentsunderstandwhatcoherenceisandawareoftheirerrorsinwritingwhichtheydidnotpayanyattentiontobefore.AndIhopethispaperwillbealsobeneficialtoteachingofEFLwriting.First,itisnecessarytogiveacleardefinitionofcoherence.Whatiscoherence?Coherencecanbegenerallyviewedintwoaspects:test-b
6、asedandreader-basedcoherence(Johns,1986).Text-basedcoherencereferstothefeaturesassociatedwiththeinternalstructureofthetextitself.Itisatextualphenomenon,linguisticdevices,whichiscloselyconnectedwiththeformofthetext.Reader-basedcoherenceisassociatedwiththemeaningfulaspectofwriter-readerinteractio
7、n.CoherenceandtextAtextisdistinguishedfromanon-textbyitstexture.Thetextureisprimarilyprovidedbycohesion,whichisasemanticconcept,whichreferstorelationsofmeaningthatexistinthetext,andthatdefineitasatextcohesionoccurswheretheinterpre
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