The current study replicated an earlier investigation by Bouwer and van der Veen where 10
Grade 5 and 6 classrooms in the Netherlands (210 students) were randomly assigned to a …

This study aims at describing and comparing the distribution of pragmatic marker (PM) use
by English as a Foreign Language (EFL) speakers and English native speakers (NSs). To …

The use of pragmatic markers as an aspect of language competence is necessary to present
ideas and facts coherently. These markers mainly modify talk so that talk is comprehensible …

This research was conducted to investigate how frequently Turkish advanced learners of
English use the logical connector" thus" in their academic prose and to investigate whether it …

Adverbs require a great deal of effort to be mastered, and even the most advanced users of
that language have difficulty in using them correctly (Narita & Sugiura, 2006; Peacock, 2010; …

Since argumentative writing skills play an indispensable role in higher educational contexts,
the students are required to produce academic works representing their academic insights …

The corpus-driven study explores the functional spectrum of the Turkish pragmatic marker
ya. Including functional, syntactic and collocational discussions, it reveals that ya often …

Metadiscourse is a tool for writers to guide and interact with readers through texts. Yet in
most student texts, one of the points lacking is the interaction between writers and readers …

Contraction forms in English are mostly occur in speech and informal writing and they are
generally avoided in formal writing types such as academic prose, business reports and …

This article presents and discusses a quantitative investigation of discourse markers (further–
DMs) in the corpus of peer reviews of academic essays in didactics written by a group of …