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