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  • 标题:Explicit Discourse Marker Instruction to Improve Coherence and Cohesion in Academic Writing
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  • 作者:Nor Ashikin Ab Manan ; Nor Nadia Raslee
  • 期刊名称:International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
  • 电子版ISSN:2222-6990
  • 出版年度:2018
  • 卷号:8
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:457-476
  • DOI:10.6007/IJARBSS/v8-i1/3820
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
  • 摘要:This quasi- experimental study examined the effects of explicit discourse marker (DM) instruction on ESL learners’ academic writing performance. Two intact groups of pre-degree students enrolled in an academic writing class at a public university were involved in the study. One group was assigned as the experimental group and the other was assigned as the control group. Both groups went through similar academic writing instruction employing the process-writing approach. However, the experimental group was also subjected to intensive instruction on the use of DMs. The study hopes to address the following research questions. RQ1: What are the effects of DM instruction on the subjects’ use of discourse markers in their Academic Essay Test (AET)? RQ2: What are the effects of DM instruction on the subjects’ AET scores for the three writing sections; ‘content’, ‘language’ and ‘organization’? It can be concluded that explicit teaching of DMs is beneficial in encouraging the use of DMs in the subjects’ academic essays. The experimental group was found to perform significantly better than the control group in the post AET. DM instruction does not only improve the ‘organization’ section of the essay but also the ‘language’ and ‘content’ sections as well. The effect size of the treatment on the post AET is medium in relation to ‘organization’ but large for ‘content’ and ‘language’.
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