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Download full textDaif-Allah, Ayman Sabry; Albesher, Khaled – English Language Teaching, 2013
The purpose of this paper is to identify the discourse markers used by Saudi EFL learners in their paragraph writing. The study was conducted on fifty students of the Preparatory Year Program at Qassim University. Data were collected from one hundred paragraphs written by the students at the end of the first and second semesters of the academic…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Modhish, Abdulhafeed Saif – English Language Teaching, 2012
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of discourse markers that Yemeni EFL learners use in their composition writings. The research questions addressed in this paper are (1) what are the DMs that are frequently used by Yemeni EFL learners? and (2) is there a direct relationship between the use of such markers and the writing quality…
Descriptors: Arabs, Discourse Analysis, Taxonomy, Essays
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)
