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European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT Existential constructions (ECs) play an important role in academic writing by introducing new information, expressing epistemic stance and facilitating information flow. Examining how EFL learners use different EC types can offer valuable insights into their syntactic development and writing proficiency. Previous research, however, has focused
Bingwei li +3 more
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TESOL Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 586-611, June 2026.Abstract Agency has emerged as a key topic in language learning and teaching research with significant implications for language learners' L2 development and teachers' professional growth. To delineate the contribution of TESOL Quarterly (TQ) to L2 learner and teacher agency research, we examine 27 articles published in the journal between 1997 and ...
Jian Tao, Xuesong (Andy) Gao
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Cogent Social SciencesThis study explores the interactional metadiscourse resources employed on a Ghanaian television talk show and the communicative functions of these resources in persuading the target audience of the show. Five episodes of the television talk show prior to
Emmanuel Nii Adama Mensah +2 more
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Examining the Interactional Metadiscourse Markers in Iranian MA Applied Linguistics Theses [PDF]
Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies, 2015 One of the most salient written academic outputs a university student has the opportunity to create is a thesis which is regarded as “a complex student-produced research genre” (Lee & Casal, 2014).
Saeed Rezaei +2 more
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METADISCOURSE MARKERS WRITTEN IN INTRODUCTION SECTION OF FINAL PROJECT OF UNIMUS EFL LEARNERS
English Review: Journal of English Education, 2019 Metadiscourse marker is one of determining indicators of the quality of the writers’ writing. Metadiscourse markers enable the writers to interact with the readers effectively.
Siti Aimah +2 more
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Metadiscourse in Chinese and American graduate dissertation introductions
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2021 The current study aims to look at differences in the use of metadiscourse in the introductory sections of English and Chinese university students. The corpus of the study comprises 20 “introductions” of university students’ MA theses.
Muhammad afzaal +3 more
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 255-267, June 2026.ABSTRACT Sociolinguistic research has long documented the appropriation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) across media including film, music and advertising. In this article, we add to this body of work by exploring the digital recontextualisation of a subset of AAVE features as ‘TikTok/internet language’.
Christian Ilbury, Rianna Walcott
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The Dynamics of Reading Genre Fiction: Researching and Teaching Interpretive Practices
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.Conceptual model positioning genre fiction as a site for studying how narrative form organizes reader interpretation, identifying four dynamics—iterability, narrative interest, serialization, and spectacle—to guide empirical research on reading processes.
Robert Jean LeBlanc, Amy Stornaiuolo
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An Analysis of Metadiscourse and Pragmatic Hedges in Fred Rogers’ Commencement Speech
Langkawi: Journal of The Association for Arabic and English, 2023 The research on metadiscourse formerly examined the language tools used to construct a speech without looking further at the contextual-related resource.
Intan Mustika Sari
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Dissemination, interaction and negotiation: Exploring digital metadiscourse (cont?d)
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D'Angelo, Larissa, Consonni, Stefania
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