Is Text Cohesion A Precursor To Reading Success?
Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan · i-manager’s Journal on Educational Psychology · 2007
This paper underscores the effect of text cohesion on EFL reading comprehension. 160 participants (80 English majors and 80 non-English majors) took two versions of a cloze test based on a passage of 750 words length—one developed with every nth word deletion and the other with cohesive word deletion. The results of analyses of variance indicated that text cohesion positively affected text comprehension. Pedagogical implications of the study are discussed.