Using a Genre-Based Approach to Raise College Students’ Awareness and Use of Discourse Markers to Improve Discourse Competence in Oral Communication

This study explored college students’ knowledge of discourse markers (DMs hereinafter) and the development in raising their awareness competence by adopting a genre-based approach (GBA to eliminate inappropriate use certain DMs. The participants were 28 freshman students with an English proficiency at Common European Framework Reference for Languages (CEFR B2 level. A pre- post-test design was employed measure DMs speaking before after GBA intervention written spoken discourse. results showed statistically significant increase frequencies varieties post-test. concluded that teaching through raised metalinguistic using different genres enhanced ability engage coherent cohesive outcomes suggested applying teach helps transfer receptive skills into productive used express thoughts orally.