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The Use of Metadiscourse Markers in the Spoken Discourse of Different EMI Disciplines

  • Cansu Aykut-Kolay

    Cansu Aykut-Kolay is a PhD candidate at Hacettepe University, Türkiye. She works as a research assistant at the department of foreign language education at Kocaeli University, Türkiye. Her research interests are classroom discourse in English medium instruction (EMI) settings, written and spoken metadiscourse in EMI, reflective practice and language teacher education.

    and Banu Inan-Karagul

    Dr. Banu INAN-KARAGUL got her PhD from Dokuz Eylül University, Türkiye, and she is currently working as a professor at the Department of Foreign Languages Education at Kocaeli University, Türkiye. Her research interests are classroom discourse analysis, language teacher education, and teacher cognition.

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Abstract

Metadiscourse (MD) allows instructors to organize classroom discourse and reflect their own style while delivering the content. MD has been studied for years, especially with a focus on written contexts even though the number of studies conducted on spoken contexts in different educational settings has a tendency to increase. With the increasing spread of English medium instruction (EMI) across the world, the role of MD in EMI classroom discourse has become a field of research that is worth investigating. Concerning the Turkish context, MD has recently been a popular research area, but there are limited number of studies conducted the examination of MD in spoken interactions in the Turkish context. To this end, the current study aims to investigate the distribution and lexicogrammatical realizations of metadiscourse markers employed by the lecturers in the spoken discourse of different EMI courses. A corpus-based discourse analysis was carried out by referring to Ädel’s (2010) framework of metadiscourse. The qualitative and quantitative analyses of the corpus collected from 36 hours of lesson observation have revealed some variations in both the distribution and realization of metadiscursive categories in different EMI courses.

About the authors

Cansu Aykut-Kolay

Cansu Aykut-Kolay is a PhD candidate at Hacettepe University, Türkiye. She works as a research assistant at the department of foreign language education at Kocaeli University, Türkiye. Her research interests are classroom discourse in English medium instruction (EMI) settings, written and spoken metadiscourse in EMI, reflective practice and language teacher education.

Dr. Banu Inan-Karagul

Dr. Banu INAN-KARAGUL got her PhD from Dokuz Eylül University, Türkiye, and she is currently working as a professor at the Department of Foreign Languages Education at Kocaeli University, Türkiye. Her research interests are classroom discourse analysis, language teacher education, and teacher cognition.

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