چکیده:
The readers' ability to integrate current information with given information has been considered as an important component of reading comprehension process. One aspect of this integration process involves anaphoric resolution. The purpose of this study is to investigate the process of anaphoric resolution, focusing on inferential rigidity of different types of anaphoric ties. Ninety EFL learners were selected from the accessible population of undergraduate EFL students at a university in Iran. In this study an anaphoric resolution test, containing 30 different expository texts, was used. The participants were asked to underline the antecedents of the anaphors. Once the data was collected and scored, it was subjected to a number of appropriate statistical procedures. The Results of the analysis of variance revealed a significant effect of different types of anaphoric ties, F (4, 87) = 10.28, p <.000. The results also revealed a significant effect of their different inferential rigidity, F (1, 87) = 43.4, p <.000. Based on the findings, a new anaphoric resolution continuum emerged. The study suggests that students should be familiar with different types of anaphoric ties in discourse and be sensitive to linguistic and textual cues in resolving them and rely on different cues in texts to comprehend texts
خلاصه ماشینی:
"The Journal of Applied Linguistics Vol. 4, Issue 2 Fall 2011 EFL Learners' Sensitivity to Linguistic and Discourse Factors in the Process of Anaphoric Resolution Zohreh Yousefvand1 Young Researchers Club, Khorasgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan, Iran Ahmad Reza Lotfi Department of English, Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan, Iran The readers' ability to integrate current information with given information has been considered as an important component of reading comprehension process.
Four different variables in particular have been shown to influence anaphoric resolution: featural overlap, topic continuity, discourse focus, and the distance between anaphors and antecedents (Garrod, Sanford & 1994).
Although, English pronouns only share gender and number features with their coreferents, and could potentially be linked to several antecedent noun phrases in a preceding text, they have a very high frequency rate (Genc & Bada, 2006; Shin’ichi, 2009) and as a result they were placed second on the continuum (e.
As it is illustrated in Table 3, the EFL university students in this study were able to identify 44% of the repetitions, 38% of the pronominals, 33% of the synonyms, 26% of the paraphrases, and 52% of the determiners in the anaphoric resolution test.
The relatively high resolution rate of resolving determiners suggests that, despite the fact that determiners are potentially opaque and provide few morphosyntactic and no semantic or pragmatic cues for their antecedents, they are very frequent, especially in informative texts and as a result they are familiar anaphoric referents for EFL readers (Fortanet, 2004; Kennison, 2003)."