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Evaluating the Use of Discourse Markers in Selected English Education Journal Articles

English Education Journal · Vol. 12 No. 1 (2022) · pp. 1–9

DOI
10.15294/eej.v12i1.52252
ISSN
2087-0108, 2502-4566
Published
2022-03-15
Publisher
Universitas Negeri Semarang
Language
eng

Abstract

Considering the important roles of discourse markers in writing academic purposes, the researchers evaluate the use of discourse markers in English Education Journal articles. This research aims to find out the types of discourse markers precisely contrastive, elaborative and inferential discourse markers, and the errors in using those expressions. This research uses a qualitative research design with the data from written language especially the journal articles published by English Education Journal (EEJ). Thus, specifically this research employs content analysis. There were twenty journal articles analyzed. They represented their volume especially there are four volumes in 2020. The findings of this research demonstrated that all of the research data applied those types of discourse markers. The type of elaborative discourse markers were the first type used by the writers. It is the frequently used by the writers in the journal articles. In this case, it used in 890 times. The expression frequently used is and. Meanwhile, the errors in using discourse markers in the journal articles occurred in 17 times. Here, the wrong relation category as the commonly applied in 7 times. These findings inform us to improve our awareness in applying those expressions. Thus, it can be concluded that the discourse markers is required in creating journal articles. Therefore, the writers have to concern regarding to the categories of errors in using discourse markers for avoiding inappropriateness.

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  • Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember
  • Institut Agama Islam Negeri Kendari
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Issy YuliasriAffiliation unknown13
Suwandi SuwandiAffiliation unknown5
SRI WAHYUNIAffiliation unknown5
Abdurrachman FaridiAffiliation unknown5
Widya AmaliaAffiliation unknown5
Sri Wuli FitriatiAffiliation unknown5
Dwi RukminiAffiliation unknown5
Januarius MujiyantoAffiliation unknown4
Puji AstutiAffiliation unknown4
Mursid SalehAffiliation unknown4
Djoko SutopoAffiliation unknown3
Frimadhona SyafriAffiliation unknown3
Fahrur RoziInstitut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember3
Zulfa SakhiyyaAffiliation unknown3
Katharina RustipaAffiliation unknown2
Ahmad SofwanAffiliation unknown2
Sri Wuli FitriatiAffiliation unknown2
Bambang PurwantoAffiliation unknown2
Henrikus Joko YuliantoAffiliation unknown2
Nyayu Yayu SuryaniAffiliation unknown1
Nesia OktaniaAffiliation unknown1
Novi Rahmania AquarizaAffiliation unknown1
Rahma WidiAffiliation unknown1
Wa Ode Zulhidjah AwalyahInstitut Agama Islam Negeri Kendari1
Muhamad Dedi Manfaluthi ManfaluthiAffiliation unknown1
Indah NurhidayahAffiliation unknown1
Rahmiwati RahmiwatiAffiliation unknown1
Januarius MujiiyantoAffiliation unknown1
Yuliana YulianaAffiliation unknown1
Annisa Nur AtikahAffiliation unknown1
Eka FatmawatiAffiliation unknown1
Prahda Alifa FegasantiAffiliation unknown1
wilis nurlelaAffiliation unknown1
Fahmi MusthafaAffiliation unknown1
Andini Lusiana SariAffiliation unknown1
Urfatul MakhsunahAffiliation unknown1
Fahmi Arif SangajiAffiliation unknown1

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