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Multimodality for comprehensive communication in the classroom: Questions in guest lectures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In recent years there have been many studies about the discourse of lectures (Pérez-Llantada & Ferguson, 2006; Csomay, 2007; Deroey & Taverniers, 2011). Lecturing is the most common speech event in most university classrooms in the world.
Fortanet-Gomez, Inmaculada   +1 more
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On the status of discourse markers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Research on discourse markers has run into fundamental difficulties recently. First, that group of linguistic items appears to withstand approaches trying to account for them in terms of formal properties, even though the set of discourse markers ...
Dér, Csilla Ilona
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Mastering Academic Language: Organization and Stance in the Persuasive Writing of High School Students [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Beyond mechanics and spelling conventions, academic writing requires progressive mastery of advanced language forms and functions. Pedagogically-useful tools to assess such language features in adolescents’ writing, however, are not yet available.
Dobbs, Christina L.   +2 more
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An Investigation of Metadiscourse Features in International Postgraduate Business Students’ Texts

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2015
Metadiscourse analysis reveals the way writers engage with different texts and communicate with each other. Examining these linguistic resources is important because they play a vital role in maximizing the learning experiences of students in the Master ...
Hesham Suleiman Alyousef
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The Importance of Metadiscourse in the genre 'Promotion of Touristic Services and Products': Differences in English and Spanish. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Este trabajo intenta poner de relieve la importancia del metadiscurso, un aspecto del discurso crucial en la relación que establecen el emisor y el receptor de un texto en el género Promoción de Servicios y Productos Turísticos en inglés y español ...
Dolón Herrero, Rosana   +1 more
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Persian Academic Lecture Closings: An Investigation into Verbal and Non-verbal Ending Indicators [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Lectures, as an indispensable channel of knowledge, have drawn the attention of many dis-course analysts. The present study investigates the organization of academic lecture closings, level of formality, and verbal and non-verbal cues for the ending of ...
Jalilifar, Alireza   +2 more
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EXPLORING HEDGES IN EFL LEARNERS’ SOME SELECTED UNDERGRADUATE THESIS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Sri Maryati (14121310362): “EXPLORING HEDGES IN EFL LERANERS’ SOME SELECTED UNDERGRADUATE THESIS” Undergraduate Thesis 2016 Hedges devices have become a crucial issue in language learning.
Sri Maryati,
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¿Se puede enseñar a persuadir a los alumnos de derecho con el metadiscurso? Una propuesta docente [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Aquest article presenta una proposta docent sobre l’ensenyament de la persuasió en el discurs oral. En concret, se centra en la importància que els alumnes de dret aprenguin els conceptes principals  de retòrica i que facin servir alguns senyals  del ...
Jiménez, Ricardo-María
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