Aspects of Cohesion and Coherence in Context: Investigating Causes of Difficulty for Israeli University Students Reading Texts in English.

AUTHOR Bensoussan, Marsha TITLE Aspects of Cohesion and Coherence in Context: Investigating Causes of Difficulty for Israeli University Students Reading Texts in English. PUB DATE 10 Jun 84 NOTE 363p.; Ph.D. Thesis, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Pages 331-363 are in Hebrew and consist of a summary and selected tables. PUB TYPE Reports Research/Technical (143) -Dissertations /Theses Doctoral Dissertations (041)

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