Hossein khazaee

Department of English, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

[ 1 ] - Hedges in English for Academic Purposes: A Corpus-based study of Iranian EFL learners

Hedges, as tools to express tentativeness and doubt, have been studied in plenty of research papers in the Iranian EFL research setting. However, their use in a learner corpus, portraying Iranian learner English, is in need of more research attention. With this end in view, this study aimed at investigating how Iranian EFL learners who have majored in English-related fields in Iran deployed hed...

[ 2 ] - Metadiscourse Markers in a Corpus of Learner Language: The Case of Iranian EFL Learners

Different issues have been probed in learner corpus research since the late 1980s.However, taking the im- portance of meta discourse markers (MDMs) in signposting academic discourse, their use in Iranian EFL learners‟ academic essays is an area of research in need of a more serious analysis. Contributing to this line of investigation, this paper reports a corpus-based study of the use of MDMs i...

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