A Preliminary Study of Cohesive Features in L2 Argumentative Writing by the Senior Students of a High School

This research made comparisons of cohesive ties between the good and poor compositions of sixty senior three students in a senior high school in Shenzhen,Guangdong Province to examine cohesive features in L2 argumentative writing.The findings of the present study reveals that the composition scores were significantly co-varied with the number of conjunction ties and lexical ties,as well as the total number of cohesive ties used.Among the three main categories of cohesive ties,lexical ties(66.7%) used most frequently in the sampled L2 essays.Moreover,cohesive ties with the most frequently used,lexical ties,contribute to the quality of syntactical structure.