A Comparative Study on the Factors of Lexical and Syntactic Cohesion in Compositions of Grade Three and Five Primary School Students’ of Shahryar in order to Offer an Appropriate Instructional Method

Subject Areas : curriculum

farzaneh farzei ¹ , fatemeh mottaghi pour ² , maryam taherzadeh ³

1 - MA, Official Teacher in Shahryar, Iran
2 - (corresponding author) MA in General Linguistics, Takestan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Takestan, Iran. Teacher in Sharyar, Iran
3 - PhD in General linguistics, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. Teacher in Shahryar, Iran

Received: 2022-06-03 Accepted : 2022-07-27 Published : 2022-08-01

Keywords: Cohesion, Synonymy, Composition, lexical cohesion, syntactic cohesion,

Abstract :

The present study adopted Halliday’s (1976) approach strived to compare factors of lexical and syntactic cohesion in compositions of grade three and five primary school students. The study was based on the descriptive-analytical approach. The research questions were a) development of which syntactic tool causes increased cohesion in grade five students’ compositions compared with those of third graders? And b) why fifth graders compositions enjoy lexical cohesion more than third graders? The purpose of the study was to determine writing progress of grade five students in comparison with grade three students. The population included two sets of students’ compositions. The data were qualitatively analyzed through syntactic and lexical analysis of individual sentences. The findings indicate that fifth graders used more syntactic and lexical factors. It was concluded that their richer lexical and syntactic repertoire caused them to outdo their grade three counterparts.