مجلة الحكمة للدراسات التربوية والنفسية
Volume 2, Numéro 4, Pages 03-21
2014-06-01

The Impact Of Discourse Markers On The Understanding Of Secondary School Lessons

Authors : Mohamad Ghazala Hussein .

Abstract

Interest in learning English has increased to such an extent that English is now considered to be an international language. In this circle, where English is mainly used for learning purposes, (EAP henceforth) plays a very important role. Therefore, EAP has increasingly expanded so that currently it forms an important part in the curricula for all learning fields at secondary school. Secondary school lesson, as one type of secondary school discourse, is an important part of most school fields worldwide. The ability to comprehend secondary school lessons in English is thus an important need for secondary school students, specialized in English language. Generally, secondary school listening contains long stretches of talk and the listeners don’t have the opportunity of engaging in the facilitating functions of interactive discourse, so it places high demands upon listeners. To succeed, they must learn to identify relationships among units within discourse such as main ideas, supporting ideas, examples, etc.

Keywords

The Impact Discourse Markers Understanding Secondary School Lessons