STANCE MARKERS: AN UNDERDEVELOPED ASPECT OF SERBIAN EFL WRITERS’ COMPETENCE

Наука и настава у васпитно-образовном контексту (2020), (стр. 457-474)

АУТОР(И): MARTA V. VELIČKOVIĆ, JELENA R. DANILOVIĆ-JEREMIĆ

Е-АДРЕСА: marta.velickovic@filfak.ni.ac.rs

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DOI:10.46793/STEC20.457V

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The topic of the current study is the interactional dimension of metadiscourse, as expressed through lexico-grammatical devices in beginner L2 writing of L1 Serbian/L2 English learners. The participants‟ use of metadiscourse devices was chosen due to its particular relevance for the beginner L2 writing process at the tertiary level. The sample of participants included a total of 70 English language majors attending the University of Niš. The corpus consisted of the students‟ expository paragraphs collected over a period of nine weeks during the 2019/2020 schoolyear. The taxonomy used in this particular study was that of Biber (2006) and Min et al. (2019), with a particular focus of hedges, stance adjectives, stance adverbs, and stance verbs. The results obtained imply that stance markers deserve a more prominent place in the EFL classroom.

КЉУЧНЕ РЕЧИ:

Stance, academic writing, tertiary education, EFL students, lexico-grammatical devices.

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