An Analysis of Metadiscourse in Chinese EFL Argumentative Writing

Autor: Xiao-Min Yan, Ying-Liang Liu, Si-Qi Li
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: DEStech Transactions on Economics, Business and Management.
ISSN: 2475-8868
DOI: 10.12783/dtem/icaem2019/31085
Popis: The present study aims to investigate how they use specific academic language forms to signal organization and stance in the essays by Chinese EFL graduate students, especially non-English majors. Data in the study was collected from 159 non-English major graduate students in a university in central China, with 81 essays in the high-score group and 66 essays in the low-score group. The analysis indicates that stance markers displays a lower frequency than organizational markers and the students in the high-score group are more proficient in the use of frame markers and additive markers. Yet, a tendency to use boosters is identified both in the high-score group and low-score group.
Databáze: OpenAIRE