Writers ensure the expected (re)construction of concepts in the mind of the audience through effective signposting of the inevitably linear linguistic stream, which is a main aspect of metadiscourse called interactive metadiscourse. In this study, the use of interactive metadiscourse markers in research articles was investigated to examine any probable difference existing between different disc...

This comparative analysis of teacher-student interaction in two different instructional settings at the elementary-school level (18.3 hr in French immersion and 14.8 hr Japanese immersion) investigates the immediate effects of explicit correction, recasts, and prompts on learner uptake and repair. The results clearly show a predominant provision of recasts over prompts and explicit correction, ...

How limitations are acknowledged and discussed has a profound impact on the extent research is evaluated accepted by its intended readers. However, little attention been drawn to presentation of in EAP literature. This study seeks remedy oversight exploring how this discursive practice mediated metadiscourse, rhetorically contextualized much these rhetorical investments differ between PhD disse...

This article suggests that there are systematic ways in which the identity of ‘self’, as created and performed through first-person markers, can be made relevant consequential particular episodes interaction. More specifically, study looks at generalizations people present about themselves local interactional contexts: displays types they always or never behave (‘I am this kind person’, ‘I do t...