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van der Ploeg, Mara; Willemsen, Annerose; Richter, Louisa; Keijzer, Merel; Koole, Tom – Classroom Discourse, 2022
In this conversation analytic study, we investigate requests for assistance in the third-age (65+) language classroom. Seven Dutch seniors participated in a one-month course of English as a foreign language. We found that these seniors asked many language-related questions which fell into one of three categories: (1) production-oriented questions,…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Classroom Communication
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Kamalski, Judith; Lentz, Leo; Sanders, Ted; Zwaan, Rolf A. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
Several studies showed how coherence markers, like connectives and lexical cue phrases, influence the processing and representation of informative text. Although discourse analysts have repeatedly argued that coherence markers influence the processing of persuasive text as well, there is hardly any empirical evidence for this idea. This article…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Experiments, Comprehension, Foreign Countries