Abstract
This study examined the effects of verb semantics, discourse unit and discourse coherence relations pronoun interpretations by Vietnamese EFL learners. Using a sentence continuation test with 32 Vietnamese EFL learners, three significant insights contributed to the existing L2 literature. Firstly, Vietnamese EFL learners were highly sensitive to semantic cues and discourse coherence when resolving pronouns. Secondly, learner preferences for in within-sentence and between-sentence contexts’ pronoun antecedents were mostly indistinguishable, suggesting that discourse unit had a negligible impact on anaphora resolution processes. Finally, verb semantics and coherence relations exhibited a dynamic interaction effect on L2 pronoun resolution Verb types varied sharply when co-occurring with different types of coherence relations.
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