Mode of production and (referential) cohesion: An L2 English corpus-based study of syntactic coordination
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Elsevier
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Referring expressions Cohesion Coordination
Date
2024-01-23Referencia bibliográfica
Díaz-Negrillo, A., & Rosillo, M. C. E. Mode of production and (referential) cohesion: An L2 English corpus-based study of syntactic coordination. System 121 (2024) 103247 [10.1016/j.system.2024.103247]
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Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (project ref. PID2020-113818GB-I00); Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Granada CBUA.Abstract
This study investigates mode of production effects on narrative discourse configuration and
referring expression (RE) selection in contexts of reference maintenance in syntactic coordination.
It looks at 3rd person singular grammatical subjects across intermediate and advanced L1
Spanish-L2 English, in contrast with L1 English. The data are written and spoken narratives from
the COREFL corpus produced by the same participant and under the same task conditions. The
study reveals an effect of the mode of production in L2 English (referential) cohesion, while no
such an effect has been found in L1 English performance. In general, in L2 English deficits in
spoken production seem to persist while those in written production disappear by advanced level.
In particular, referential cohesion seems more challenging for L2 English learners than the
discourse-syntactic configuration of their narrative texts. By advanced level, the learner’s
discourse configuration is comparable to that of native speakers’ both in their written and in their
spoken narratives. However, the spoken productions by advanced learners still show a higher
amount of fuller REs, in comparison to the spoken productions by the native participants.