This research explores the extent to which a new assessments can help students to enhance their ways of contributing to explanation-seeking discourse, and also investigates the extent to which expanding contribution repertoires helps students to advance community knowledge as a whole. To this end, this study tested both pedagogical and technological supports designed to raise the level of stude...

Abstract Over the past several decades, there has been an increasing interest in academic discourse investigations with a specific focus on disciplinary, cultural, and generic aspects of text construction. Studies Spanish, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, French, German, Russian (inter alia) have revealed not only universal features characteristic many writing cultures, but also unique rhetorical fe...

this study examined the effect of explicit instruction of hedging on english forspecific academic purposes (esap) reading comprehension performance ofenglish language learning (ell) university students. a reading comprehensiontest was developed and validated as the pretest and the posttest. the test, includingitems for assessing the comprehension of the students in their area of specialization,...

Abstract Metadiscourse features refer to those elements by which interaction between writer-reader and/or speaker-audience is constructed. Taking this into account, the objective of contrastive parallel corpus-based study was explore way metadiscourse were used and distributed in English discourse their translation Persian language as well analyzing translation. For purpose, 30 different TED ta...

Friday sermon is a formal speech delivered during the act of worship by Muslims held before prayer. It weekly event that involves disseminating information as well persuading congregation through preaching and teaching. In sermons, rhetorical religious genre, orators usually try to convince an audience using different strategies language devices such metadiscourse. Metadiscourse strategy used a...

As a part of pragmatics of language, Metadiscourse (MD) has been widely recognized as playing a pivotal role in the expression and comprehension of messages in academic writing. In view of its significance in effective communication, there have been a lot of attempts to categorize different MD devices within manageable models alongside some descriptive works to demonstrate the use of MD devices...

For successful written communication, the writer not only must engage the readers’ attention but also must sustain their interest till the end whatever the length of the communication. The subject of the communication, the information or the propositional content alone, cannot hold the reader’s attention for long. A writer’s success depends not only on what is being conveyed but also on how wel...