In this paper we show how information structure affects the text coherence for before/after-sentences in a discourse. We analyse information structure with respect to the question of how information is presented on the sentence level and how the presented information can be connected to the preceding discourse. In particular, we raise the question of when a preposed temporal clause is felicitou...

We describe ongoing work in semi-automatic annotating corpus, with the goal to answer “why” question in question answering system and give a construction of the coherent tree for text summarization. In this paper we present annotation schemas for identifying the discourse relations that hold between the parts of text as well as the particular textual of span that are related via the discourse r...

A sizeable body of research into instructed pragmatics roots from the noticing hypothesis: comparing im- plicit and explicit instruction. It is only recently that other theories, including the output hypothesis, have been researched as possible explanations of interlanguage pragmatic development. Pursuing the same line of research, the present study addressed the impact of collaborative o...

this paper investigates learner-initiated responses to english language teachers’ referential questions and learner initiatives after teachers’ feedback moves in meaning-focused question-answer sequences to analyze how interactional practices of language teachers, their initiation and feedback moves, facilitate learner initiatives. classroom discourse research has largely neglected learner init...

The alternative to be outlined provides a proposal to solve a central problem in research on discourse structure and discourse coherence, namely, as pointed out by many authors, that of the relationship between linguistic and intentional structure, or, in other words, between subject matter and presentational relations (Mann and Thompson 1988) or informational and intentional relations (Moore a...

background: evaluation of students’ educational progress is one of the main goals of universities. one of the most important means to this end is the final test. in this study, the results of the final residency tests for dermatology, ophthalmology and gynecology and obstetrics of medical university of mashhad in (tir 1391) have been examined. methods: in this applied study, the population cons...