مقاله A Contrastive Study of Cohesive Devices Used in Pre-university and Headway Textbooks

Gholamreza Rostami *

PhD Candidate, Department of Islamic Azad University, Miyadoab, Sama, Iran

 

Hamideh Gholami

MA Candidate, Department of Islamic Azad University, Miyadoab, Sama, Iran

 

Saeedeh Piri

MA, Department of Islamic Azad University, Miyadoab, Sama, Iran

Abstract
This study compares and contrasts the frequency of the use of cohesive devices in Iranian pre-university EFL textbook and in the headway as an EFL institute textbook for this purpose. The reading sections of Iranian pre-university EFL and headway textbooks were analyzed in terms of the distribution of grammatical and lexical devices. The results of one-way ANOVA illustrated that there were significant differences among the frequencies of grammatical cohesive sub- devices across Iranian pre-university and headway textbooks. Moreover, the result of chi-square test indicated that there were significant differences among the frequencies of lexical cohesion sub-devices across Iranian pre-university EFL and headway textbooks. These findings can be beneficial for textbook writers, material developers and EFL teachers.

Keywords: lexical cohesion, grammatical cohesion, pre- university, head way

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