Investigating the Awareness of EFL Undergraduates of El-Mergib University towards Linking Adverbial Cohesive Devices and its Impact on the Assessments of Speaking Skill

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الإصدار التالي: 19 نوفمبر 2024
من مجلة أنساق للفنون والآداب والعلوم الإنسانية

Investigating the Awareness of EFL Undergraduates of El-Mergib University towards Linking Adverbial Cohesive Devices and its Impact on the Assessments of Speaking Skill

Mustafa Ali Gumma
Abstract

This research aimed to find out types of Linking Adverbial cohesive devices and the correctness of cohesive devices in students’ spoken Language. This study was designed as qualitative study. The samples of this research were 30 students in the 2nd and 3rd year of English major at the Education Faculty in Meslata City affiliated to Elmergib University in Libya. The data were collected through the document of scripted interviews of the students’ recordings which analyzed by using the theory of cohesion by Halliday and Hasan (2014) which was concerned with: Linking Adverbial cohesion types (reversal, causal, adversative, and contrastive). The results of this study showed that there is a shortage of knowledge of the linking adverbial cohesive devices not only as a matter of awareness but also is a misuse of cohesive devices in general. The findings of this study shed the light on the necessity of learning this type of cohesive devices otherwise coherence will not be enhanced, the logic flow will be interrupted and the structural signposting will not be provided

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