Abstract This study investigates the use of interactive metadiscourse markers in first language (L1) and second (L2) English editorials. It also identifies how L1 L2 editorials differ these markers. To this end, utilizes Hyland’s (2019) model to analyse – based on a descriptive approach 80 collected from two highly reputed newspapers: The Guardian Jordan Times , distributed evenly. data were an...

Among the linguistic resources for creating grammatical metaphor, nominalization rewords   processes and properties metaphorically as nouns within the experiential metafunction of language. Following Halliday's (1998a) classification of grammatical metaphor, the current study investigated nominalization exploited in an English applied linguistics textbook and its corresponding Persian translati...

Discourse markers improve both the quality and comprehension of a written text. This study aimed at investigating the effect of explicit and implicit instruction of formal meta-discourse markers on writ- ing skills. The quantitative data were collected from 90 upper-intermediate students at Shiraz Univer- sity Language Center. Two experimental groups went through an instruction, while the contr...