Different approaches examine discourse markers: descriptive and formal approaches (quantitative or qualitative, synchronic or diachronic) connectives and discourse markers. This article presents a study case of discourse markers used in unacceptable way from a grammatical and cohesion point of view in a learning environment. Two questions will be discussed: Are these type of use produce reading...

Arabiyyah Li al-Hayât (ALH) is a book about learning Arabic as second language written by non-native speakers. The State Islamic University of Malang uses this an book. This paper analyses the cohesion in reading texts (nushush Qira‘ah) used for skills library research descriptive-qualitative approach. study found that have several kinds markers, both grammatical and lexical cohesion. Grammatic...

This research was an attempt to find the relationship between English discourse markers and their Farsi translations. It was conducted in order to find out whether DMs translations completely demonstrate source texts orientation and to what extent DMs translations are functionally appropriate compared to the original text? Six instruments were used. Three of them were the original English books...

authentic text is considered to be an important requirement of communicative approach and communicative foreign language teaching textbooks. the present research investigates the authenticity of three pfl textbook by answering the following question: “to what extent are the texts in pfl textbooks considered to be authentic?” accordingly the quantity and quality of cohesion discourse-marker dist...

We are compiling a corpus of Dutch texts annotated with discourse structure and lexical cohesion, containing initially 80 texts from expository and persuasive genres. We are using this resource for corpus-based studies of discourse relations, discourse markers, cohesion, and genre differences. We are also exploring the possibilities of automatic text segmentation and semi-automatic discourse an...

The process of Sister Chromosome Cohesion (SCC), which holds together sister chromatids upon replication, is essential for chromosome segregation and DNA repair in eukaryotic cells. Although cohesion at the molecular level has never been described in E. coli, previous studies have reported that sister sequences remain co-localized for a period after their replication. Here, we have developed a ...