the present study attempted the relative effect of explicit teaching of textual metadiscourse markers on esap reading comprehension performance of iranian university students through an awareness raising experiment. a sixty-item multiple choice esap reading comprehension test of accounting was developed and validated to act as the pre-test and post-test. the test included items for assessing sp...

This study aimed to investigate the use of interactional metadiscourse markers in 168 comments made by 28 university students of engineering via an educational forum held as part of a general English course. The students wrote their comments on six topics, with a total of 19,671 words. Their comments during educational discussions were analyzed to determine their use of five metadiscourse categ...

Many different sources and platforms are introduced everyday as information content. News article remains one of the primary forms textual written for public. Even with help metadiscourse in writing, authors still face an issue misunderstanding comprehending from their readers. Further analysis is needed to understand usage news article, it will contribute usage. The study aims analyse on about...

The current study comparatively investigated the employment of metadiscourse items in 40 post-method sections/chapters research articles (RAs) and master’s dissertations (MAs) field applied linguistics. Utilizing Hyland’s (2005a) model analysing elements detected both sets texts, findings indicated that interactive features were more frequent texts than interactional items, dissertation subcorp...

Abstract Batch scheduling systems are usually designed to maximise fair resource utilisation and efficiency, but less well for demanding interactive processing, which requires fast access resources while low upstart latency is only of secondary significance high throughput performance computing systems. The clusters at DESY intended as batch end users run massive analysis simulation jobs enabli...

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 ...