Empirical study of the effects of discourse markers on the reading comprehension of Spanish students of English as a foreign language

The aim of this work is to analyse how Spanish readers react to English discourse markers in a text. We carry out an empirical study in which we ask three research question: (a) if there is any relationship between presence of discourse markers or absence of discourse markers and reading comprehensi...

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Main Author: Ana Cristina Lahuerta Martínez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Murcia 2009-12-01
Series:International Journal of English Studies (IJES)
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Online Access:http://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/90731