Evaluating the Use of Discourse Markers in Selected English Education Journal Articles

English Education Journal Pub Date : 2022-03-15 DOI:10.15294/eej.v12i1.52252

Egi Raputri, Hendi Pratama, Rudi Hartono

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Considering the important roles of discourse markers in writing academic purposes, the researchers evaluate the use of discourse markers in English Education Journal articles. This research aims to find out the types of discourse markers precisely contrastive, elaborative and inferential discourse markers, and the errors in using those expressions. This research uses a qualitative research design with the data from written language especially the journal articles published by English Education Journal (EEJ). Thus, specifically this research employs content analysis. There were twenty journal articles analyzed. They represented their volume especially there are four volumes in 2020. The findings of this research demonstrated that all of the research data applied those types of discourse markers. The type of elaborative discourse markers were the first type used by the writers. It is the frequently used by the writers in the journal articles. In this case, it used in 890 times. The expression frequently used is and. Meanwhile, the errors in using discourse markers in the journal articles occurred in 17 times. Here, the wrong relation category as the commonly applied in 7 times. These findings inform us to improve our awareness in applying those expressions. Thus, it can be concluded that the discourse markers is required in creating journal articles. Therefore, the writers have to concern regarding to the categories of errors in using discourse markers for avoiding inappropriateness.

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评价英语教育期刊文章中语篇标记语的使用

考虑到语篇标记在学术写作中的重要作用，研究人员对英语教育期刊文章中语篇标记的使用进行了评估。本研究旨在找出话语标记的类型，即对比语、阐述语和推理语，以及在使用这些表达时的错误。本研究采用定性研究设计，数据来源于书面语言，特别是《英语教育杂志》(EEJ)发表的期刊文章。因此，具体来说，本研究采用了内容分析。共分析了20篇期刊文章。他们代表了他们的数量，特别是2020年有四卷。本研究的结果表明，所有的研究数据都应用了这些类型的话语标记。解释性话语标记语是作家使用的第一种类型。它是作者在期刊文章中经常使用的。在这种情况下，它使用了890次。经常使用的表达是and。同时，在期刊文章中出现语篇标记错误的次数为17次。这里，错误关系的范畴为常用的7次。这些发现告诉我们在使用这些表达时要提高我们的意识。由此可见，在期刊论文创作中，话语标记是必不可少的。因此，作者在使用语篇标记语时必须注意错误的种类，以避免出现语篇不恰当的情况。

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English Education Journal

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