Metadiscourse Markers in Quantitative and Qualitative Applied Linguistics Research Articles' Discussions: A Comparative Study

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Marzieh Bagherkazemi ¹ , Milad Moradpour Moghadam Vajargahi ² , S. Sadat Javadi ³

1 - Department of English Language Teaching, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of English Language Teaching, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of English Language Teaching, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2022-06-29 Accepted : 2022-08-18 Published : 2022-12-01

Keywords: نشانگرهای فراگفتمانی تبادلی, نشانگرهای فراگفتمانی تعاملی, پژوهش های کمی, پژوهش های کیفی,

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