Attitude markers in L2 Graduate Academic Writing: A Corpus Study of Czech Master's Theses
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The presentation was given at the 4th International Conference on Language Education and Research that took place at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki in Greece. It presented the preliminary results of research into the writer-reader interaction realized via the use of metadiscourse markers, specifically the attitude markers as defined by Hyland and Tse (2004) with a focus on attitudinal nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in English-medium Master's Theses written by Czech students at Masaryk University and compared with a corpus of texts written by native speaker students selected from the BAWE corpus. The main result is that Czech students prefer to use attitudinal adjectives to evaluate the propositional content and communicate with the reader while the other three sub-categories are much less common. Another finding is that research-oriented attitude markers prevail over topic-oriented markers. The results indicate that writing instruction provided to tertiary students needs to raise students' awareness of metadiscourse markers, their range and role in communication between the writer and reader. |
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