An exploration of texture in Ghanaian undergraduate students� essays

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dc.contributor.advisorBanda, Felix
dc.contributor.authorAmoakohene, Benjamin
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-31T16:00:19Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-27T09:17:45Z
dc.date.available2024-03-27T09:17:45Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionPhilosophiae Doctor - PhDen_US
dc.description.abstractAs an official and second language in Ghana, English is used as a medium of instruction in the Ghanaian educational setting, especially at the university level. Therefore, for Ghanaian students to go through their university education successfully, they should be able to demonstrate competence in the usage of English. However, time and again, there have been series of complaints from most English language teachers about the Ghanaian students� lack of dexterity in writing cohesive and coherent texts. The present study, therefore, has as its aim to explore texture in first-year Ghanaian undergraduate students' essays (GUSEs). This focus is achieved through four main specific objectives. Thus, the study accounts for (1) the types of cohesive devices (2) the cohesive errors (3) the disciplinary variation in the type of cohesive devices and cohesive errors and (4) the thematic progression patterns in the essays of these first-year Ghanaian undergraduate students. To achieve these objectives, I use the Systemic Functional Linguistics perspective to text analysis, specifically the metafunction of texture as projected by Halliday (1967, 1970, 1985, 1994, and 2004), Halliday and Hasan (1976), Martin and Rose (2003) and Martin (2015).en_US
dc.description.embargo2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/9955
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectCohesionen_US
dc.subjectCoherenceen_US
dc.subjectTextureen_US
dc.subjectStudents� writingen_US
dc.subjectSystemic functional linguisticsen_US
dc.subjectGhanaian undergraduate studentsen_US
dc.titleAn exploration of texture in Ghanaian undergraduate students� essaysen_US

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