Discourse organizing elements in student essays
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21030/anyp.2018.1.3Keywords:
students’ essays, discourse organizing elements, teaching composition, Hungarian language and literature, experience in foreign language teachingAbstract
This study, the edited version of the presentation given at the University Linguistics Days in Novi Sad in 2017, investigates the occurrence of discourse organizing elements in the text production exercises of students at a secondary grammar school in Vojvodina, in essays produced at school leaving exams. The main questions are: in what functions do these elements occur in texts and what consequences the absence of these elements may have. The aim is to show through analysed examples that the examined linguistic elements should play a more important role as indicators of metapragmatic awareness during the teaching of text production and thus increase the persuasive power of text and the text producer’s awareness. Finally, the study provides an overview of the practical implications in terms offoreign language teaching.