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Download full textMartinez, Ana Cristina Lahuerta – International Journal of English Studies, 2009
The aim of this work is to analyse how Spanish readers react to English discourse markers in a text. We carry out an empirical study in which we ask three research question: (a) if there is any relationship between presence of discourse markers or absence of discourse markers and reading comprehension in English as a foreign language, (b) if there…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Familiarity, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedJackson, Jane; Bilton, Linda – English for Specific Purposes, 1994
Twenty lectures by native speaker geology lecturers to nonnative speaker students were transcribed, and 921 instances of vocabulary elaboration were coded into a computer database according to 20 linguistic features. Analysis revealed noticeable variation among lecturers in language range/technicality, vocabulary elaboration, signalling, and use…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English for Science and Technology, Geology
