The main goal of the study is to critically investigate the major elements of the political
speeches of the Thai Prime Minister, Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha. Informed by van Dijk's (1997) …

Authentic learner data is important when investigating the use of the target language by
learners during second language acquisition process. Whether it is written or spoken …

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This study aimed to investigate the effect of teaching discourse markers (DMs) on Iranian
intermediate EFL learners' speaking achievement. In the first step, 60 homogeneous …

This paper analyzes conversational self-repair, which refers to reconstructing problematic
portions of a prior oral discourse by oneself, in Tigrinya. Tigrinya is a Northern Ethio-Eritrean …

Emphasis on importance of fluency was originated in 1970, a period that was called
communicative movement. So, what really affect EFL learners' oral fluency? And to what …

This thesis is a corpus-based study of two spoken academic corpora in English as the
(foreign) medium of instruction (EMI) context. The first corpus is compiled of transcripts of …

This paper compares two offline corpora for legal translations: the first one composed
manually and the second automatically. In order to highlight the advantages of the one and …

This study investigated the use of articles, modal verbs and selected discourse markers (so,
well and but) in Zimbabwean English (ZE) to determine whether there are variations and …

This study aimed to examine the potentials of the NLP approach in detecting discourse
markers (DMs), namely okay, in transcribed spoken data. One hundred thirty-eight …