Different issues have been probed in learner corpus research since the late 1980s.However, taking the im- portance of meta discourse markers (MDMs) in signposting academic discourse, their use in Iranian EFL learners‟ academic essays is an area of research in need of a more serious analysis. Contributing to this line of investigation, this paper reports a corpus-based study of the use of MDMs i...

This research explores the extent to which a new assessments can help students to enhance their ways of contributing to explanation-seeking discourse, and also investigates the extent to which expanding contribution repertoires helps students to advance community knowledge as a whole. To this end, this study tested both pedagogical and technological supports designed to raise the level of stude...

Abstract Over the past several decades, there has been an increasing interest in academic discourse investigations with a specific focus on disciplinary, cultural, and generic aspects of text construction. Studies Spanish, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, French, German, Russian (inter alia) have revealed not only universal features characteristic many writing cultures, but also unique rhetorical fe...

this study examined the effect of explicit instruction of hedging on english forspecific academic purposes (esap) reading comprehension performance ofenglish language learning (ell) university students. a reading comprehensiontest was developed and validated as the pretest and the posttest. the test, includingitems for assessing the comprehension of the students in their area of specialization,...

Friday sermon is a formal speech delivered during the act of worship by Muslims held before prayer. It weekly event that involves disseminating information as well persuading congregation through preaching and teaching. In sermons, rhetorical religious genre, orators usually try to convince an audience using different strategies language devices such metadiscourse. Metadiscourse strategy used a...

Watershed from markers and hierarchical watershed are approaches suitable for interactive image segmentation: in the former, the user can edit markers to control the segmentation result; in the latter, the user can select an image partition from a nested set of partitions. We propose an interactive image segmentation tool that allows transition from one approach to other and thus the combinatio...