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Discourse Markers in ESL Personal Narrative and ...(话语标记在ESL的个人叙事和)
International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Vol. 4 No. 4 [Special Issue – February 2014]
Discourse Markers in ESL Personal Narrative and Argumentative Papers:
A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
Emad A. Alghamdi
English Language Institute
King Abdulaziz University
Jeddah
Saudi Arabia
Abstract
This study reports a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the use of discourse markers (DMs) in personal
narrative and argumentative papers written by 30 undergraduate students: 15 native speakers (NS) and 15 non-
native speakers (NNS) . The study also ascertains whether the frequency and the incorrect use of DMs plays a role
in determining the quality of ESL writings. Findings showed that there was no significant difference in the use of
DMs. In both types of composition, NS and NNS writers used elaborative, contrastive and reason markers at
higher rates than any DMs in other categories, forming, as consequence, a hierarchy of use. The qualitative
analysis of NNS writings showed an overuse of DMs at sentence-initial position and an unnecessary use of
semantically similar DMs within the boundary of a single sentence. The incorrect use and the frequency of DMs
were key indicators of the quality of ESL writings. Finally, some pedagogical implications are offered.
Key Words: discourse markers, writing quality, personal narrative writing, argumentative writing, ESL writing
1. Introduction
As difficult as composing an academic English prose is for native-speaker students, it is even
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