Den röda tråden - En studie av textbindningen i andraspråkselevers texter

Summary, in English

This paper investigates and problematizes the cohesion of second language students' texts in secondary school to see what kind of cohesion may be particularly difficult for them to produce, as well as particularly important to teach. The investigation is carried out in the light of Rydling and Svensson's (2004) study showing a generally lower level of writing by second language speakers in the Swedish secondary school. The analysis model is based on a selection of text linguistic models, where definitions by Collberg (2020), Hellspong & Ledin (1997) and Nyström (2000) are applied to investigate textual coherence, in terms of discourse relations, and cohesion, in terms of the use of connectives, anaphors and referential coherence. Six different problem types related to cohesion are found in the student texts of which the three most frequent problem types are Misleading connectives, Underspecified inferences and Underspecified anaphors. These types of problematic cohesion can also be found in Wikborg and Björk's (1989) analysis of first language speakers’ texts at university level. The relationship between cohesion and writing experience as well as knowledge of the target language is discussed in the paper.

• Author: Maria Sjölander
• Department/s: Division of Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Public Service Interpreting and Translation
• Publishing year: 2022
• Language: Swedish
• Full text: Available as PDF - 1 MB; Download statistics
• Document type: Student publication for Bachelor's degree
• Topic: Languages and Literatures
• Keywords: textbindning; andraspråkselever; SVA; svenska som andraspråk; koherens; kohesion
• Supervisor: Philippe Collberg (Quel salut pour Thérèse Desqueyroux?)