Discourse Markers Used by Students in Nonformal Education

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10.2991/assehr.k.211110.125How to use a DOI?

Keywords

discourse markers; students interactions; nonformal education

Abstract

In order to achieve a good communication, discourse markers are essentially needed as a tool to perform in connecting or linking the ideas to ideas, especially in spoken language, it helps the speakers and the listener to comprehend what the speaker intended to say. In addition, it makes the conversation feels smooth and organized. In line with that, the objective of this study is to investigate the types of discourse markers applied in students of nonformal education. The source of the data was students’ interaction in nonformal education and the data were the words from their utterances contained of types of discourse markers. The research was done by applying descriptive qualitative method. The result revealed that the most dominant types of discourse markers applied by students in their interactions are Response Forms (28,27%), and followed by hesitator marker (21,91%), it is also found that ‘hmm’ is applied by students as a response forms marker instead of hesitator marker.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Atikah Nurul
AU  - Saragih Amrin
AU  - Zainuddin
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/11/22
TI  - Discourse Markers Used by Students in Nonformal Education
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Seminar on Transformative Education and Educational Leadership (AISTEEL 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 472
EP  - 475
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211110.125
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211110.125
ID  - Nurul2021
ER  -