TEXTUAL COHERENCE AND COHESION IN THE PAPERS OF FIRST AND THIRD YEAR STUDENTS OF GERMAN STUDIES

Authors

  • Danijela Vranješ Faculy of Philology, University of Belgrade

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18485/zivjez.2019.39.1.2

Keywords:

textual language competence, language competence, coherence, cohesion, Common European Framework

Abstract

The aim of the analysis is to examine the presence of cohesive means in students' texts and determine the level of their textual competence based on the coherence criteria. For the needs of the research, a corpus analysis of written exams of students of the first and third year of German studies at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade in the academic year 2018/19 was conducted. The results of the analysis show that the textual language competence of first-year students corresponds to the B1 level of the Common European Framework, while the same competence of third-year students is at the level of C1.1. Based on the obtained results, it is concluded that the difference in the levels of textual language competence between the first and third year is almost two levels.

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Published

2019-12-30

How to Cite

Vranješ, D. (2019). TEXTUAL COHERENCE AND COHESION IN THE PAPERS OF FIRST AND THIRD YEAR STUDENTS OF GERMAN STUDIES. Živi Jezici: Journal for Foreign Languages and Literatures, 39(1), 45–68. https://doi.org/10.18485/zivjez.2019.39.1.2

Issue

Vol. 39 No. 1 (2019)

Section

Glottodidactics

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