A pedagogical linguistics perspective for measuring the Egyptian EFL learners' performance in using some discourse markers

الملخص EN

The present study examined how the Egyptian EFL students competently use the FL discourse markers.

In other words, how the Egyptian EFL learners can properly differentiate between the syntactic and textual functions of such markers.

Data were collected through the instruments of pretest and posttest.

Eighty Egyptian EFL students enrolled at the Department of Languages and Translation, Higher Institute for Specific Studies, Haram participated in the present study.

They were divided into a control group and an experimental group with forty participants each.

The experimental group participants were taught the syntactic and textual functions of the FL discourse markers.

Data were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively.

The Paired Samples T-Test and the Independent Samples T-Test indicated statistically significant improvement of the experimental group participants' use of FL discourse markers over their control group counterparts.

The present study emphasized the importance of adopting the pedagogically-oriented linguistics perspective in teaching FL discourse markers to the Egyptian EFL learners.