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An examination of the use of spoken interactional metadiscourse markers in EMI lectures from different disciplines

English for Specific Purposes
David Lasagabaster Herrarte, Ada Bier
exaly   +2 more sources

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
wiley   +1 more source

Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE) as Form‐Focused and Meaning‐Focused Activities: Refining its Measurement and Examining its Predictive Role in L2 Achievement and Confidence

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 393-408, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Acknowledging the limitations of existing measurement instruments in adequately capturing the distinct cognitive processes (e.g., form‐focused vs. meaning‐focused) involved in informal digital learning of English (IDLE), this paper asserts a pressing need to develop and validate robust instruments that measure form‐focused and meaning‐focused ...
Minlin Zou, Mark Feng Teng, Ali Soyoof, Xueyun He   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Metadiscourse and Teacher Moves for Supporting Student Reasoning in Linguistics Classroom Interactions

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 522-539, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the features of metadiscourse across different teacher moves in university linguistics classroom discourse and the teaching strategies reflected in its use. The results reveal that teachers employ diverse metadiscourse during classroom interactions to support student reasoning.
Jingjie Li, Wenjie Hu
wiley   +1 more source

Metadiscoursal Realisation of Pragmatic Strategies @ResearchProject Twitter Accounts

Atlantis, 2023
To ensure the global communication and visibility of their investigations, international research projects leverage online settings and endorse specific digital academic practices.
Pilar Mur-Dueñas, Daniel Pascual
doaj   +1 more source

An Analysis of Interactive Metadiscourse Markers in Expository Writing by Malaysian ESL Undergraduates

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science
Studies on metadiscourse have been conducted extensively across different genres, namely, research articles, research theses, and argumentative writing. Due to differences in genres and levels of education (undergraduate/postgraduate), there has been inconsistency in results, although most studies have adopted a common framework, which is the ...
null Siti Faridah Kamaruddin, null Naginder Kaur   +1 more
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The public multiple: community organizing and fractal politics in East London Public multiple : organisation des communautés et politique fractale dans l'est de Londres

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1003-1022, December 2025.
Politics requires collective deliberation, but what happens when people cannot agree on how to deliberate? Anthropologists and other social scientists have urged us to look beyond the hegemonic liberal ideal of public reason, in order to recognize a plurality of publics, each held together by distinctive forms of reason.
Farhan Samanani
wiley   +1 more source

Writing Against Fate: Climate Strategies and Subversions in Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future

Future Humanities, Volume 3, Issue 2, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Climate fiction's dominant futurist imaginaries trend towards resolved futures, particularly in apocalyptic and techno‐utopian representations of our climate futures. These closure‐driven narratives treat the future as a fated, distant event, limiting climate fiction's interrogation of human agency, responsibility, and potential action in the ...
Maryn Gardner
wiley   +1 more source

A Study of Interactional Metadiscourse Markers and Gender in the Defense Seminars of Persian Speakers

Journal of Educational and Social Research, 2014
This paper aims to analyze the relation between a linguistic behavior, namely interactional metasdicourse, and a non-linguistic variable, namely, gender in thesis defenses of Persian speakers. Based on the model of community of practice, a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the metadiscourse markers employed by male and female candidates in ...
Raha Zareifard, Batool Alinezhad
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An exploration of interactive metadiscourse markers in academic research article abstracts in two disciplines [PDF]

Discourse Studies, 2013
A generic analysis of research article abstracts can cover issues of different types; among them are linguistic features. An integral part of linguistic features of research article abstracts is interactive metadiscourse usage that can assist to make the text persuasive and unfolding to a discourse community.
Khedri, Mohsen, Chan, Swee Heng, Ebrahimi, Seyed Foad   +2 more
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