FFST Open Press

Discourse markers (DMs) play a critical role in facilitating understanding for English as a foreign language (EFL) learners and helping them navigate the complex communicative environment of the classroom (Walsh 2013). They contribute to the coherence and flow of spoken discourse, aiding both comprehension and interaction. In addition to aiding in the structuring of discourse, …

In spite of discourse markers´ highly important role in creating discourse cohesion and coherence and in spite of the fact that discourse markers are an indispensable component of discourse, pragmatic and strategic, i.e. communicative competence, empirical research on these linguistic items has been largely neglected in the field of foreign language learning, especially English (Ellis, …