This research explores the ability of grade 2 students to engage in productive discussion about the state of their knowledge building using group-level feedback tools to support their metadiscourse. Two aspects of knowledge work were common to the comparison and experimental classes: BKnowledge Building talk^ (KB talk) involving teacher-student discussions and the use of Knowledge Forum, an onl...

Metadiscourse has been defined as the discourse used by writers to help their readers connect, interpret and evaluate attitudes towards referential material presented (Vande Kopple, 2002). In his study on CEO’s letters, Hyland (1998b) examined metadiscourse manifestation of a writer’s linguistic rhetorical presence in text looked at persuasive nature business communication. ...

Moving in line with the postulation that metadiscourse (MD) markers help transform a dry and tortuous piece of text into a coherent and reader-friendly one, the researchers in the current study attempted to investigate the effect different metadiscourse markers might have on Iranian EFL learners’ perception of written texts. To this end, 120 undergraduate English students were given three diffe...

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...

This study is a corpus-based study of interactional metadiscourse in natural and social science master theses. For this purpose, 30 natural and social science master theses in six disciplines were randomly selected out of the library of five universities. Five master theses were selected in each discipline, in a period of six years (2010-2016).This study analyzed only the discussion and conclus...

Over the past decade, there has been an increasing interest in the study of interactional metadiscourse markers in different contexts. However, not much research has been conducted about the discourse of journal author guidelines, especially the use of meta-discourse markers in this genre. Therefore, this corpus-based study had three main aims: 1) to delve deep into the types, frequencies and f...

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,...

Abstract Metadiscourse features refer to those elements by which interaction between writer-reader and/or speaker-audience is constructed. Taking this into account, the objective of contrastive parallel corpus-based study was explore way metadiscourse were used and distributed in English discourse their translation Persian language as well analyzing translation. For purpose, 30 different TED ta...

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...

Metadiscourse is a widely used term in current discourse analysis and language education, referring to an interesting, and relatively new approach to conceptualizing interaction between text producers and their texts and between text producers and users. Despite the growing importance of the term, however, it is often understood in different ways and used to refer to different aspects of langua...