Anaphoric Procedures in Four Text Types Written by Children

Abstract

Until now, there has been no study which has systematically compared anaphoric procedures used by children in different text types. Studies concentrated on sentence level or analyzed only stories. The present article describes the anaphoric procedures used in four text types (argumentation, explanation, account of a recent personal experience, and story) written by children 10, 12, and 14 years old. It shows that each text type is characterized by specific means to create anaphoric cohesion. From an ontogenetic point of view, one can observe important changes in the explanation. For the other text types, no important differences appear. © 1994, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.