خلاصة:
The purpose of this study was to compare metadiscourse markers in forty English and Persian university lectures. Twenty of them were selected from the British Academic Spoken English corpus. The other 20 were selected from an Iranian website (www.maktoobkhane.com). We used Hyland’s (2005) model of metadiscourse. The metadiscourses were collected. Further, the frequency of each type was studied. Finally, native English data were compared to Persian ones. Data were analyzed through Chi-square and findings revealed there were meaningful differences between the two corpora. However, as for boosters, the difference was not meaningful in both lectures.
ملخص الجهاز:
A Comparative Study of Metadiscourse Markers in English and Persian University Lectures Maryam Kahkesh1, Mohammad Alipour' 1 Department of English Language Teaching, College of Humanities, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, IRAN.
Abstract The purpose of this study was to compare metadiscourse markers in forty English and Persian university lectures.
Hyland (1998) declares that "metadiscourse has been displayed to be a critical feature of English for Second Language and native speaker student writing by which the authors for international scientific journals can attain intelligibility of communication through proper discipline norms, values, and assumptions to trail their path to academic promotions (p.
The following research questions guided the investigation: Do English and Persian university lecturers differ in their use of metadiscourse in the classroom?
Finally, native English data were compared to Persian ones to see to what extent the genre of lecture is different in these two languages in terms of metadiscourse, relevant, or significant points.
The following table reveals the type, frequency, percentage and density of the metadiscourse markers employed in university lectures of this study (View the image of this page) .
The results of Chi-square test for the overall results of interactive markers indicate that there are significant differences in employing metadiscourse markers between English and Persian university lectures.
As mentioned earlier, metadiscourse markers classification model proposed by Hyland (2004, 2005) was used in this study to investigate them in the two corpora, English and Persian university lectures.
This study examined in details the frequencies and occurrences of metadiscourse markers between English and Persian university lectures.