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The Role of Cohesion in Communicative Competence as Exemplified in Oral Proficiency Testing.

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Pavlou, Pavlos – 1994

This paper investigates the role of cohesion in oral proficiency testing. This study analyzed the cohesion of oral reports given by 16 Cypriot high school students studying English as a foreign language (EFL) using a modification of M. A. K. Halliday and R. Hasan's rating scale. It then compared the objective cohesion ratings with impressionistic…

Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries