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标题：Discourse Markers and Reading Comprehension: Is there an effect?
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作者：Al-Surmi, Mansoor
期刊名称：Theory and Practice in Language Studies
印刷版ISSN：1799-2591
出版年度：2011
卷号：1
期号：12
页码：1673-1678
DOI：10.4304/tpls.1.12.1673-1678
语种：English
出版社：Academy Publisher
摘要：This paper is a contribution to the studies conducted for investigating the relationship between text linguistic signals and reading comprehension. The aim of this paper is to test the hypothesis that discourse markers facilitate reading comprehension. The specific question addressed is whether the presence of discourse markers facilitates reading comprehension at a global level (i.e., at the discourse level). Two groups of L2 learners were given a text followed by multiple choice comprehension questions. One group was given the actual text, while the other group was given the same text with discourse markers removed. The results indicated that there were no differences in the performance of the two groups. The study concluded that presence or absence of discourse markers may have no effect on the overall representation of coherent information needed for reading comprehension.
关键词：reading comprehension; discourse markers; local and global coherence; on-line and off-line coherence