The current study is an attempt to investigate the impact of explicit instruction of metadiscourse markers on advanced, intermediate, and elementary EFL learners’ writing performance. The participants of the study were 94 undergraduate students majoring in English Literature at the University of Isfahan. To elicit the relevant data, participants were given a pretest of writing ability to check ...

The original impetus for this cross-linguistic study came from a need to explore the effect of cultural factors and generic conventions on the use and distribution of metadiscourse within a single genre. To this end, the study as a contrastive rhetoric research, examined a corpus of 60 newspaper editorials (written in English and Persian) culled from 10 elite newspapers in America and Iran. Bas...

The presence of an abstract is required in a research publication, and it recurring problem for graduate students. purpose this literature review article to elucidate on the following topics by evaluating relevant publications published respectable journals between 2014 2021: (1) tendency rhetorical move usage, (2) linguistic features usage moves, (3) pedagogical implications moves teaching wri...

In addition to being able to infer a user's domain goals, a natural language expert consultation system must also be able to 1) recognize the user's preferences regarding the domain plan being developed and 2) infer the user's problem-solving goals and model the problem-solving process. This paper discusses both the usefulness of user preferences to the plan recognition process and the necessit...

this study investigated two major types of metadiscourse markers as used in typical sales contracts, written by english natives and iranian non-natives. in so doing, 60 sales contracts were selected, 30 written by native english and 30 by iranian non-natives. based on hyland and tse’s taxonomy, the contracts were codified and classified in terms of the frequency and percentage of the interactiv...

This study describes a new corpus of over 60,000 hand-annotated metadiscourse acts from 106 OpenCourseWare lectures, from two different disciplines: Physics and Economics. Metadiscourse is a set of linguistic expressions that signal different functions in the discourse. This type of language is hypothesised to be helpful in finding a structure in unstructured text, such as lectures discourse. A...

The article focuses on the definition and analysis of communication as a metadiscourse social interactions in terms topological methodology. Socio-cultural transformations that shape model global world change Ukrainian landscape, intensification cross-cultural contacts, international relations, relations communities different levels actualize problem communicative interaction. Globalization pro...