The Influence of Task-based Metadiscourse Instruction on University Students’ Writing Quality

DOI

10.2991/icmemi-15.2015.42How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Metadiscourse, Metatext, Discourse markers, Hedging, Validity marker, Illocutionary.

Abstract

Recently, metadiscourse has been under study from a descriptive point of view and has been revealed to be a prominent characteristic of various types of academic text, which cover school textbooks, university textbooks, doctoral dissertations and pedagogical studies such as reading comprehension, listening comprehension and writing. It has also been investigated comparatively in order to comprehend the differences in usage across cultures. Some work has fixed the eyes on metadiscourse in composition. Nevertheless, very few studies have paid attention to the functions of metadiscourse in particular contexts and less experimental work has been carried out about the effects of metadiscourse on English writing of Chinese college students. This paper aims to evaluate a new approach of classroom metadiscourse instruction.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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