Among the most innovative features of the TOEFL® Internet-based test (TOEFL iBT) are the addition of a speaking measure and a revised writing measure consisting of two writing tasks. The speaking and writing measures include both independent and integrated tasks. Independent tasks require test takers to talk or write about their personal opinions or experiences. Integrated tasks require the use...

The article explores the specifics of paremic space coronavirus discourse, in which new images typical situations related to pandemic are formed. narrative affects use phraseological units and paroemias, which, despite their stable structure, subject various modifications. aim this research is de­termine ways paroemias modified by time-reframing, being one main discourse strategies. Modificatio...

The article is dedicated to the study of stratagem Chinese media discourse as a special way structuring discursive position that contributes its dominance in communication. Because analysis corpus texts political discourse, it established manifests itself coordinates macro-communication, which has an agonal character, and focused on achieving dominant by validating with help public social addre...

Discourse markers have been studied extensively in linguistics and communication studies. Its use is very helpful understanding the message conveyed, both formal informal situations. This study examines discourse used by non-native speakers Good Morning America Talk Show. Unveil types their functions, this uses a qualitative descriptive method identifying of markers. The data were taken from co...

Meta-discourse markers are an inevitable part of oral proficiency which improve both the quality and comprehension of learners’ speech. While studies of oral meta-discourse have been conducted since the 1980s in a European or US context, they have remained relatively untouched in Iran. Therefore, this study aimed to seek the impact of both explicit and implicit teaching of formal meta-discourse...

Discourse connectives (e.g. however, because) are terms that can explicitly convey a discourse relation within a text. While discourse connectives have been shown to be an effective clue to automatically identify discourse relations, they are not always used to convey such relations, thus they should first be disambiguated between discourse-usage and non-discourse-usage. In this paper, we inves...

We present a cross-lingual discourse relation analysis based on a parallel corpus with discourse information available only for one language. First, we conduct a corpus study to explore differences in discourse organization between Chinese and English, including differences in information packaging, implicit/explicit discourse expression divergence, and discourse connective ambiguities. Second,...