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    "pk": 6864,
    "title": "Cohesion and Coherence in Children's Written English: Immersion and English-only Classes",
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    "abstract": "This study investigates the nature of cohesion, coherence, content, and grammar emergent in children 's essays, with a greater emphasis given to the understanding of cohesion and coherence. Conceptual definitions of these constructs are summarized based on prior research. The measurement of these constructs is operationalized into a picture-based narrative writing task for elicitation and scoring criteria for quantification. 192 first and second graders from an immersion program and English-only classes participated in the study. The analysis uses percentages, correlations, multiple regression, and qualitative analyses. Main findings include the following: (a) the measurement of cohesion and coherence can be operationalized; (b) referential and lexical cohesion correlate highly with the overall writing quality defined as the sum of the ratings of coherence, content, and grammar; (c) ellipses and substitution show a weak correlation with the overall writing quality; (d) lexical and referential cohesion are significant predictors of coherence while other types of cohesion are not; (e) dominant reference types are pronominal forms and proper nouns, and prominent types of conjunctive relation are temporal and additive; and (f) the most common error in cohesion is inaccurate reference. The substance and method of this study can provide a foundation for investigating subsequent topics with latent variables and different linguistic backgrounds and grade levels.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": null,
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Applied Linguistics"
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    "section": "Articles",
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            "first_name": "Jungok",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Bae",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles",
            "department": "None"
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    "date_submitted": "2010-07-22T07:00:00Z",
    "date_accepted": "2010-07-22T07:00:00Z",
    "date_published": "2001-06-30T07:00:00Z",
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