Background Literature Review: Transition markers, as a metadiscourse marker, have been named differently such as internal conjunctions (Halliday & Hasan, 1976; Hyland & Tse, 2004), linking adverbials (Biber et al., 1999), linking adjuncts (Richards & Schmidt, 2010), cohesive ties (Al-Jarf, 2001), discourse connectives (Blakemore,…

Discussion forums are important components of online courses because of the collaboration and community they foster, and the language used within the discussion forums may be influential in this development. In particular, studying the gendered language patterns of discussion forums can help gain insight into students' state of mind and propensity…

To investigate the narrative development of Chinese-speaking children aged 3--6 years, 80 children were prompted to tell personal stories. High point analysis was used and both narrative components and overall narrative patterns were analyzed. In terms of narrative components, Chinese children were more skillful in using complicating action,…

This article uses a conversation analytic framework to explore reproaches in classroom interaction. The data used is naturally occurring Finnish classroom interaction (students aged 13-15). The analysis focuses on reproaches that are used in order to silence students and in which gendered address terms are included. In the data occurrences, the…