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Reading, as the major channel to obtain linguistic knowledge, has long been paid much attention to in foreign language teaching and learning. With the deeper research on reading process, both reading theories and reading teaching methods have been improved a lot. In this thesis, the writer carried out an experiment with the lexical cohesion theory applied in English reading class so as to find out a better way for the students to improve their English reading ability.
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Huang, M., Song, Y., Li, N. (2011). A Study on the Application of Lexical Cohesion to ESL Reading Based on Web Materials. In: Lin, S., Huang, X. (eds) Advances in Computer Science, Environment, Ecoinformatics, and Education. CSEE 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 217. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23339-5_79
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