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<p>The aim of this study is to refresh the extant literature regarding anaphoric interpretation from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), a text-based approach that has been long missing in the prior studies. Within an SFL-oriented model of cohesion-driven anaphoric relations, a total of 132 participants participated in two tasks examining how Chinese EFL learners interpreted six anaphora subcategories—reference (coreference), ellipsis &amp; substitution, repetition, synonymy, hyponymy and collocation (non-coreference or associative anaphora)—both at inter- and intra-sentential levels in two narratives. Results indicated low accuracy across multiple anaphoric relations. Proficiency did not explain variance in performance, whereas statistically significant within-genre topic effects were reported. In addition, these findings have implications for instructors, learners, and researchers.</p>

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Anaphoric Interpretation Among Chinese EFL Learners: Evidence from a Text-Based Approach

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    2026年6月26日

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  • Leyi Qian,
  • Rongrong Huang,
  • Yan Cheng

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The aim of this study is to refresh the extant literature regarding anaphoric interpretation from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), a text-based approach that has been long missing in the prior studies. Within an SFL-oriented model of cohesion-driven anaphoric relations, a total of 132 participants participated in two tasks examining how Chinese EFL learners interpreted six anaphora subcategories—reference (coreference), ellipsis & substitution, repetition, synonymy, hyponymy and collocation (non-coreference or associative anaphora)—both at inter- and intra-sentential levels in two narratives. Results indicated low accuracy across multiple anaphoric relations. Proficiency did not explain variance in performance, whereas statistically significant within-genre topic effects were reported. In addition, these findings have implications for instructors, learners, and researchers.