Table 2.
Cohesion and Coherence Ratings by Discourse Type and Group
| Story Generation |
Story Retelling | Narrative | Procedural | Average across all discourse types |
|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VM | CP | VM | CP | VM | CP | VM | CP | VM | CP | ||
| Discourse | Words | 113.83 (83.89) |
122.67 (88.70) |
188.33 (123.01) |
260.67 (149.00) |
576.33 (267.36) |
803.17 (476.97) |
491.50 (271.86) |
501.67 (116.36) |
342.50 (276.26) |
422.04 (358.69) |
| T-Units | 9.17 (6.34) |
7.00 (2.83) |
16.00 (9.72) |
16.17 (5.04) |
2.64 (0.58) |
2.65 (0.69) |
2.85 (0.93) |
2.44 (0.43) |
21.13 (13.01) |
27.29 (25.79) |
|
| Ties | 23.17 (19.77) |
20.17 (13.23) |
53.67 (36.01) |
53.00 (24.40) |
92.67 (31.82) |
140.33 (93.15) |
66.17 (25.36) |
73.00 (23.49) |
58.92 (37.13) |
71.63 (64.71) |
|
| Cohesion |
Ties/T-
Units |
2.24 (0.66) |
2.80 (0.93) |
3.00 (1.03) |
3.17 (0.86) |
2.64 (0.58) |
2.65 (0.69) |
2.85 (0.93) |
2.44 (0.43) |
2.66 (0.84) |
2.84 (0.79) |
|
%
Complete |
0.89 (0.23) |
0.95 (0.05) |
0.96 (0.04) |
0.97 (0.03) |
0.99 (0.01) |
0.98 (0.02) |
0.96 (0.05) |
1.00 (0.01) |
0.95 (0.12) |
0.97 (0.03) |
|
| Coherence | Global | 3.94 (0.37) |
4.29 (0.48) |
4.90 (0.16) |
4.59 (0.24) |
4.47 (0.33) |
4.34 (0.28) |
4.68 (0.46) |
4.49 (0.45) |
4.50 (0.49) |
4.43 (0.37) |
| Local | 4.32 (0.38) |
4.32 (0.38) |
4.96 (0.07) |
4.70 (0.23) |
4.53 (0.33) |
4.65 (0.26) |
4.65 (0.33) |
4.57 (0.34) |
4.59 (0.41) |
4.56 (0.32) |
|
Note: Data are presented as Mean (SD). Ties/T-unit is the mean number of cohesive ties per T-unit across all coding categories. Referential, lexical, and conjunctive ties are presented as the mean number of ties per T-unit. Coherence ratings are presented as the mean rating on the 5-point scale.