the current study is an attempt to investigate the impact of explicit instruction of metadiscourse markers on advanced, intermediate, and elementary efl learners’ writing performance. the participants of the study were 94 undergraduate students majoring in english literature at the university of isfahan. to elicit the relevant data, participants were given a pretest of writing ability to check ...

The current study is an attempt to investigate the impact of explicit instruction of metadiscourse markers on advanced, intermediate, and elementary EFL learners’ writing performance. The participants of the study were 94 undergraduate students majoring in English Literature at the University of Isfahan. To elicit the relevant data, participants were given a pretest of writing ability to check ...

In this paper we describe patterns of spatial co-ordination that, we propose, are a distinctive characteristic of multi-person face-to-face interactions. The data come from a task in which participants describe some simple, non-spatial, computer code in an instructor / learner scenario. Three participants take part; 2 instructors and 1 learner. Using excerpts from these interactions we show tha...

In addition to being able to infer a user's domain goals, a natural language expert consultation system must also be able to 1) recognize the user's preferences regarding the domain plan being developed and 2) infer the user's problem-solving goals and model the problem-solving process. This paper discusses both the usefulness of user preferences to the plan recognition process and the necessit...

The ongoing Pan-European integration process has profoundly influenced the nature of European law and its development, demanding a review “the ways how language […] is materialized” (Gibová, 2009, p. 192). EU multilingualism thus becoming an intricate concept since “EU translation Europe” 192) encompassing supranational view world co...

Although academic writing has been seen as an objective form of writing, recent studies have shown that it is a social interaction and not totally impersonal. In line with this view, Hyland (2002) stated also strongly linked the manifestation authorial presence across text. Included in interactional metadiscourse framework devised by (2005), self-mentions enable writers to express their beliefs...

This study describes a new corpus of over 60,000 hand-annotated metadiscourse acts from 106 OpenCourseWare lectures, from two different disciplines: Physics and Economics. Metadiscourse is a set of linguistic expressions that signal different functions in the discourse. This type of language is hypothesised to be helpful in finding a structure in unstructured text, such as lectures discourse. A...

The article focuses on the definition and analysis of communication as a metadiscourse social interactions in terms topological methodology. Socio-cultural transformations that shape model global world change Ukrainian landscape, intensification cross-cultural contacts, international relations, relations communities different levels actualize problem communicative interaction. Globalization pro...