Cohesive Ties

 

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The local coherence in a text that is established by using words that link sentences together.

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Focuses on the relationship between cohesion and comprehension.

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Cohesion is the type of language redundancy that links one sentence or phrase with another.
 


Theory behind using cohesive ties

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Dukin(1978) found very little reading comprehension instruction in the classroom (particularly explicit instruction that helps children work out the meaning of text larger than a single word). Cohesion is an area for comprehension instruction needing increased attention for many students.

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Prior knowledge, according to Reutzel and Morgan, (1990) does not compensate for the absence of cohesive ties in text.

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