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Discourse Markers in Composition Writings: The Case of Iranian Learners of English as a Foreign Language
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Jalilifar, Alireza – English Language Teaching, 2008
The aim of this study was to investigate discourse markers in descriptive compositions of 90 Iranian students who were selected from two universities. Without any instruction, they were given a topic to write a descriptive composition per week for 8 weeks. 598 compositions were collected, and they were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively by…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Graduate Students, Writing (Composition)