Written communication and lack of coherence in texts produced by university students

Authors

  • Sandra Maria Leal Alves Universidade Federal de Pelotas - UFPel

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17058/signo.v42i75.9580

Keywords:

university students. written text production. language use. meaning.

Abstract

The study analyzes written language use by undergraduate students entering university, in terms both of register appropriacy and coherence. Seventy texts in which an answer to a stimulus question was produced were analyzed. Based on the data, the initial hypothesis that language use by the participants would be problematic was confirmed. Actually, data analysis has shown language usage problems in the totality of the corpus, with difficulties related to written coherence being the most salient.

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Author Biography

  • Sandra Maria Leal Alves, Universidade Federal de Pelotas - UFPel
    Doutora em Linguistica Aplicada

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Published

2017-09-11

Issue

Vol. 42 No. 75 (2017)

Section

VIII Conferência Linguística e Cognição

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How to Cite

Written communication and lack of coherence in texts produced by university students. (2017). Signo, 42(75), 67-76. https://doi.org/10.17058/signo.v42i75.9580