THE DE BEAUGRANDE-DRESSLER’S CRITERIA FOR TEXTUALITY: SHAPING EFL STUDENTS’ ARGUMENTATIVE WRITTEN DISCOURSE

Telaumbanua, Yohannes and Wahyuni, Sri and Asilestari, Putri and Yalmiadi, Yalmiadi (2021) THE DE BEAUGRANDE-DRESSLER’S CRITERIA FOR TEXTUALITY: SHAPING EFL STUDENTS’ ARGUMENTATIVE WRITTEN DISCOURSE. Digital Transformation in Education, 2805.

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Abstract

The signs of the EFL students’ Writing strengths and or weaknesses stand on the success of or failure of meeting the De Beaugrande and Dressler’s seven criteria for textuality. Certainly, the writings are likely more communicative if these criteria are seriously taken into account. The research, therefore, aimed at diagnosing the EFL students’ sensitivity of exactly and correctly using the seven standards of textuality in their AWD as well as finding out the external readers’ responses towards the AWD’ produced. The qualitative approach and DA’s techniques were mixed in investigating the 4th -year College English Department (ED) students’ AWD. The finding showed that the AWD produced by the 4th -year students have been grammatically and lexically (cohesively) linked and grammatically and semantically coherent. The external readers, on the other hand, appraised that the AWD fabricated were critically intent on exercising the cohesion and coherence, well-accepted, more informative, more situational, and sensibly interrelated or interconnected to the other texts (ideas). In conclusion, the 4th -year university ED students’ sensitivity to seriously taking into account using these criteria caused the AWD produced were more communicative.

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