Acquisition And Use Of Discourse Mrkers In Student Writing At Sophomore Level

The purpose of this study is t o evaluate the effectivenessrnof the Addis Ababa Sophomore English course in enhancing thernstudents' acquisition and u se of discourse markers in writing.rnFor the purpose of this study the Sophomore students of thernDepartment of Economic s were selected as a representativernsample of all the Sophomore s tudents in Addis Ababa University.rnA pretest was administered t o these students at thernbeginning of the course to dete rmine the level of the students'rnknowledge and skill at using discourse markers in writing. Atrnthe end of the Sophomore English course, which l asted for arnp eriod of about four months, a posttest was administered tornthe s ame group that took the pr etest to determine the progressrnand the leve l t hat the students we r e able to achieve at thernend of the course.rnThe scores of the two tests were analyzed and the resultsrnwere compared as were items within each te st. The analysisrnshowed that the mean score of the posttes t was considerablyrngreater than that of the pretest . It a l so showed up differencesrnin performance in the use of different types ofrndiscourse marking . Thus it was concluded tha t the AddisrnAbaba University Sophomore English course was successful inrnhelping the s tudents t o learn the use of discourse markersrnin writing.

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