An Analysis Of Discourse Markers Found In English Textbook “Pathway To English” For 11th Grade Published By Erlangga

Nurjannah, Dewi Ayu Irawati (2021) An Analysis Of Discourse Markers Found In English Textbook “Pathway To English” For 11th Grade Published By Erlangga. Other thesis, Universitas Islam Riau.

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Abstract

Discourse markers (DMs) known as device which is utilized to signal a sequential relation among previous ideas mentioned and the ones will be mentioned. The texts were taken from ten selected written texts in English Textbook “Pathway to English” for 11th Grade published by Erlangga as the source of data. This research was conducted through a descriptive qualitative approach toward the textbook which was aimed to investigate the types and functions of discourse markers. The result presented that there were 159 expressions of discourse markers found in the texts analyzed by the researcher based on Fraser‟s (2009) and Mahendra & Dewi‟s (2017) theories. The research findings reflected that the entire types of discourse markers by Fraser were discovered. Those types are elaborative, contrastive, inferential, and temporal markers with elaborative marker as the most frequently appeared while contrastive marker was the least one. Moreover, words and phrases represented the function of each expression of discourse markers were also revealed. Those functions were categorized into discourse markers used to add information or idea, to signal contrast idea, to limit idea or introduce example, to show cause effect relationship, to indicate sequence and time order, and to conclude the whole idea within the text. The result implied that the utilization of discourse markers must be appropriately improved since students‟ knowledge toward the signal still lack while there were also some signals indicating two functions within a sentence that may cause misunderstanding if students have no enough knowledge about these markers.

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