Suggestions toward some discourse-analytic approaches to text difficulty: with special reference to ‘T-unit configuration’ in the textual unfolding

Suggestions toward some discourse-analytic approaches to text difficulty: with special reference to ‘T-unit configuration’ in the textual unfolding

This paper represents some suggestions towards discourse-analytic approaches for ESL/EFL education, with the focus on identifying the textual forms which can contribute to the textual difficulty. Textual difficulty / comprehensibility, rather than being purely text-based or reader-dependent, is cert...

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Main Author: Kazem Lotfipour-Saedi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Urmia University 2015-01-01
Series:Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research
Subjects:
Discourse analysis
Expository texts
T-unit configuration
Textual forms
Textual difficulty
Contextual factors
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