A Comparative Study of Discourse Markers in Four Corners and ILI English Series
Publish place: Language Studies & Cultural Social Political Academic Scienific Occupational Development
Publish Year: 1395
نوع سند: مقاله کنفرانسی
زبان: English
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تاریخ نمایه سازی: 4 مهر 1396
Abstract:
The current study aimed at comparing the use of discourse markers (DMs) in Four Corners(FCs) and The ILI English Series (ILI) as English as a foreign language (EFL) textbooks developed by native and nonnative (Iranian) authors,respectively.To this end, the conversationsections of FCs 2 and ILI Elementary 3 (ILI E 3) were analyzed in terms of the types and functions of DMs and their frequencies based on functionalparadigm of DMs proposed by Fung and Carter(2007). The results ofchi-square analyses showed that the use of discourse markers was significantly different in both corpora. Moreover, the findings indicated that interpersonalfollowed by referential were the most frequent DMs applied in these books. However, no considerable difference was observed with regard to referential DMs. It is hoped that the findings can be beneficialfor EFL materials developers, teachers, and learners
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Mozhgan Amiri
English Department, Amin Institute of Higher Education, Fooladshahr, Iran
Maryam Farnia
English Department, Payame Noor University, Iran
Masoud Saeedi
English Department, Payame Noor University, Iran