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The use of logical connectors by Czech EFL learners in their spoken discourse

Authors: Ježková Šárka

Year: 2020

Type of publication: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Page from-to: nestránkováno

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Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
eng	The use of logical connectors by Czech EFL learners in their spoken discourse	The paper presents the analysis focused on the use of a selected inventory of devices serving to build cohesive spoken communication. As the clarity and coherence of expression are the fundamental characteristics of effective communication, the use of appropriate logical connectors is a very important skill that EFL learners should acquire. The Corpus of Czech Students’ Spoken English (Ježková, 2015), comprising about 150,000 words, is explored with the aim to find out how proficient the students are in using such cohesive devices. Particularly, three groups of semantic relations are investigated (additive, adversative and causal), represented by two types of parts of speech: conjunction and adverb. The concordance results are examined with the attempt to interpret how the use of individual logical connectors can help listeners comprehend accurately and make sense of discourse. Based on the findings, some modifications of teaching discourse strategies may be suggested.	spoken discourse; learners' language; syntactic connectors