Coherence and Cohesion in English Discourse

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 Overall results: Non-native and native speakers of English 
compared
As far as the overall frequency rates of all conjuncts included in this study 
are concerned, Table 2-1 clearly indicates that non-native speakers of English, 
i.e. experienced Czech writers of RAs, apply certain explicit guiding signals to 
a higher extent (12.28) than native speakers of English (8.80) when producing 

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academic texts which are represented here by RAs published in the journals 
Discourse and Interaction
and 
Applied Linguistics
respectively. This difference 
is most remarkable with listing (enumerative and additive) and appositive 
conjuncts, which Czech writers use with a frequency of occurrence double that 
of native speakers of English when building coherence relations, i.e. relations 
that hold together different parts of the discourse (Taboada 2006: 267).