Linguistic analysis of Grammatical Cohesion of L2 ESL Learners in the acquisition of English as a second language in the Erstwhile FATA, Pakistan
Abstract
The present research intends to analyze the Grammatical Cohesion of L2 ESL learners in the acquisition of English as a second language in the erstwhile FATA region, KP, Pakistan. The main focus of the study is to highlight the differences in the discourse competence by focusing on the grammatical cohesion between the group of students who are highly motivated (DMCs) and the group of L2 ESL learners who are not highly motivated. Directed Motivational Currents (DMCs) i.e. a novel psychological construct in the acquisition of English as second language (ESL) in the context of KP, Pakistan. DMC has recently been introduced in the field of applied linguistics specifically, in L2 motivation. The data has also been collected from students answer books and for this purpose a longitudinal study design was followed. In order to evaluate the students’ discourse competence, the researcher has checked and analyzed the written responses of the students in the papers of midterm examination ate two distinct times. The first step was to find out the occurrences of the different linguistic items and structure in terms of the components of communicative competence. The second step was to point out the mistakes they have made in this regard and the final step was to analyze and compare these mistakes. The data has been analyzed linguistically. The results show that the highly motivated students are comparatively more competent than the students who are not highly motivated.
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