Kohärenzbildung in mehreren Sprachen. Überlegungen zu einem Analyseverfahren bei der Erforschung der individuellen Mehrsprachigkeit von angehenden Lehrpersonen für Englisch und Deutsch mit L1 Ungarisch am Beispiel der Textproduktion
Coherence Formation in Multiple Languages. Reflections on Individual Multilingualism of Prospective English German Teachers with L1 Hungarian Using Text Production as an Example

Summary/Abstract: This paper is devoted to the topic of coherence formation in three languages. In doing so, it presents an analysis procedure that aims to explore the interplay between text depth structure and text surface in comprehension. The paper investigates which text grammatical means are important in establi¬shing text coherence in different languages and what influence they have on coherence formation in text comprehension. In coherence formation, the cohesion-creating linguistic devices visible on the text surface play a significant role. In this paper, resumption structure, conjunction, article use, and tense use are investigated in terms of their importance for coherence formation in text production in several languages. The investigation is based on student texts produced in a pilot study during the paraphrasing of source texts in three languages (Hungarian, German, English). These texts are subjected to an analysis procedure in this paper. The aim of the study is to record the conscious use of text grammatical devices and to describe similarities or differences between texts in the three languages. In the present paper, the question is addressed whether the text analysis procedure used to analyse the student texts proves to be purposeful and suitable in exploring the specifics of individual multilingualism among prospective teachers.

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