Telling a coherent story in a foreign language: Analysis of Korean EFL learners' referential strategies in oral narrative discourse

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1975-1990

  Kang, Jennifer Yusun ^a  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse cohesion; English as a Foreign Language; Korean; Korean EFL learners; Narrative discourse; Reference referential strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344574800     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2004.03.007     Document Type: Article

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