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Exemplification in student essay writing: A study of learner corpus of essay writing (LCEW)
Abstract In academic writing, exemplification plays a crucial role in contextualizing complex ideational material through instances the readers can understand. In addition to illustrating ideas through concrete instances, the act of providing examples serves the purpose of helping the readers grasp the writer's intentions.
Chintalapalli Vijayakumar
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Dialogic voices of writers and readers in traveller forums through interpersonality [PDF]
Este estudio explora el discurso de páginas web y aplica una metodología basada en el diálogo a la interpersonalidad en los foros de viajeros. Este género pertenece al campo de los viajes y el turismo, donde la interacción de autores y lectores se dirige
Suau Jiménez, Francisca
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The Metadiscourse Markers in Good Undergraduate Writers’ Essays Corpus
Good student writers are often seen as a benchmark to the weaker writers. In the area of metadiscourse in students’ writing, previous studies show that good undergraduate writers use more metadiscourse markers as compared to the weaker writers. However, there are limited previous studies which observe the use of metadiscourse among Malaysian ESL ...
Amaal Fadhlini Binti Mohamed +1 more
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Abstract We analyze Asian American comedian Ali Wong's linguistic and embodied performance in her 2016 stand‐up special, Baby Cobra, through a genre‐specific lens to investigate how stand‐up comedy's performance conventions shape her comedic persona. We argue that Wong uses communicative forms indexically associated with Blackness to perform racialized
Kendra Calhoun, Joyhanna Yoo
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Examining the Interactional Metadiscourse Markers in Iranian MA Applied Linguistics Theses [PDF]
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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EXPLORING HEDGES IN EFL LEARNERS’ SOME SELECTED UNDERGRADUATE THESIS [PDF]
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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Trialing project-based learning in a new EAP ESP course: A collaborative reflective practice of three college English teachers [PDF]
Currently in many Chinese universities, the traditional College English course is facing the risk of being ‘marginalized’, replaced or even removed, and many hours previously allocated to the course are now being taken by EAP or ESP.
Wang , Yi, Wang, Jing, Wang, Lisha
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Metadiscourse and Topic Introductions in an Academic Lecture: A Multimodal Insight [PDF]
This paper is part of a larger scale project where I explore the structure of academic lecture. The focus of the study here presented is to investigate the structure and organization of a university lecture through the introduction of new topics.
Bernad-Mechó, Edgar
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Abstract This study examines the use of visual and linguistic metadiscourse markers in academic posters of private schools in Jordan and their role in persuasion. To this end, the study analyses a corpus of 40 advertisements for the use of visual and linguistic metadiscourse markers.
Aseel Alshbeekat, Anas Awwad
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Iranian EFL Learners` Use of Metadiscourse Markers in Argumentative Writing [PDF]
This paper is an attempt to investigate the EFL Iranian learners` use of metadiscourse markers in argumentative writing. The participants of the study are 40 students both male and female. To produce the relevant data, participants were given a pretest of writing ability to check their initial knowledge use of metadiscourse markers.
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