This study examined the effect of the ZPD-based discourse scaffolding on EFL learners' co-construction of L2 metadiscourse performing collaborative writing tasks and explored the discourse scaffolding dynamics. The participants were 160 EFL students that were assigned to four different treatment conditions: (i) formal teaching, (ii) input enhancement, (iii) non-ZPD interaction, and (iv) ZPD-bas...

This study examines a corpus of conversations of Turkish preschool-age children with adults, with the goal of analyzing 2 types of extended discourse structures (i.e., lists and narratives). Lists and narratives are compared with respect to (a) their internal structures, and (b) their social functions in the participants’ daily interactions. The analyses suggest that although lists and narrativ...

This paper examined and compared two corpora in terms of boosters, a category interactional metadiscourse markers. Boosters strengtens the writers' existence, position, argument, claims, commitment into texts. One hundred articles are composed corpora; 50 from non-native researchers’ papers (Turkish writers), native papers. Two were under 4 types boosters: modals (type 1), adjectives adverbs 2)...