The Correlation between Discourse-Anaphoric Devices and an Overall Communicative Competence in Learners' Essays

Abstract

We introduce a contrastive study of text coherence in Czech and German. Specifically, we focus on the discourse-anaphoric devices (called anaphoric connectives) contributing to text coherence and we analyze their role in the overall communicative competence of both native and non-native speakers of Czech and German.

Keywords

• correlation
• between
• discourse
• anaphoric
• devices
• overall
• communicative
• competence
• learners
• essays