Zulfiqar Ahmad
Teacher Beliefs about Students’ Use of Cohesion in Writing: What Does the Textual Evidence Reveal?
Jeddah University
despite extensive research base domain analyses academic writing study pedagogic perceptions revealed students actual writing performance relatively underresearched area study aimed finding relationships teachers beliefs textual evidence regard students use cohesion academic writing structured questionnaire openended interviews used gauge teachers perceptions subject cohesion analysis samples students academic essays performed collated teachers perceptions results revealed statistically significant correlations pedagogic perceptions well textual manifestations cohesion use sample texts agreement disagreement observed teachers believed students ability use cohesion textforming resource textual analysis cohesion study proposes review pedagogic practices focus academic writing literacy well research initiative larger sample conduct microlevel analysis cohesion collated teachers students beliefs