Investigating the relationship between discourse markers, language proficiency and reading comprehension: A case of some Iranian university students

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue , 2011, Pages 1526-1530

  Jafarinejad, Rasool ^a   Tavakoli, Mansoor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Coherence and cohesion; Discourse markers; Language proficiency; Metadiscourse; Reading comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858777995     PISSN: 18770428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.03.324     Document Type: Conference Paper

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