Abstract
This study aims to investigate differences and similarities in the use of cohesive devices by young and adult Korean EFL learners in their argumentative writings. Results show that young Korean EFL learners’ texts displayed some age-specific features in their overt use of causative conjunctions, which might be partly explained by their causal reasoning skills along with their tendency to provide a short description of their ideas in their argumentation. Several of the cases of overuse and misuse of conjunctions and references, which often interfere with cohesive text in young Korean EFL learners’ texts, might derive from the lack of L2 writing experience and linguistic knowledge. Interestingly, L1 influence can be seen through their overuse of the pronoun determiner ‘this’ indicating ‘definiteness’ since they use demonstratives instead of indefinite articles. These findings yield important teaching implications for developing written discourse competence at the Korean elementary education level.
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