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1、AStudyofReadingComprehensioninNMETBasedontheDiscourseMarkerTheoryAthesisSubmittedtotheSchoolofForeignLanguagesShenyangNormalUniversityInPartialFulfillmentoftheRequirementsfortheDegreeofMasterofArtsByZhangjiaoUndertheSupervisionofProfessorZhaoFengqinMay2012AcknowledgementIa
2、mgreatlyindebtedtoanumberofpeople.Withouttheirhelp,thisthesiswouldnothavebeenfinished.Iwouldliketoexpressmygratitude,appreciation,andthankstothem.FirstlyIammostgratefultomysupervisorZhaoFengqin.Ioweherspecialthanksforthereasonthatherinvaluablesuggestions,insightcommentsand
3、painstakingcorrectionshavecontributedalottothecompletionofthisthesis.Secondly,sincerethanksgotoalltheteacherswhoteachmeinthefieldofliterature.Theirliterarylecturesenlightenedmeonmyinterestofliteratureandgreatlywidenedmyhorizons.Andlastly,mygenuinethanksmustbegiventomyfamil
4、yandmyfriends,whoprovidedmewithsupport.iAbstractReadingcomprehension,asoneofthefourbasicskillsinEnglishlanguage,playsthemostimportantroleinEnglishteachingandlearninginseniorhighschool.While,howtoreadthetextsquicklyaswellasunderstandthemaccuratelyhasbecomeabigproblemformost
5、oftheseniorhighschoolstudents.Discoursemarkers,asoneofthespecialandimportantdevicesofcohesion,notonlyconnectthesentenceeffectivelyaswellasparagraphs,butalsoshowthelogicalorsemanticrelationsbetweenthepreviousinformationandthefollowing,makingthetextorganizationmoreexplicit.S
6、othepresenceofdiscoursemarkerscanfacilitatereaders’interpretationofthewholetexteffectively.Andthepositiveeffectsofthediscoursemarkersontextcomprehensionhavebeenprovedbyseveralstudies.NationalMatriculationEnglishTest(NMET)isthemostimportanttestforseniorhighschoolstudents,es
7、peciallyforthosewhowanttogetfurtherstudiesinuniversities.EveryNMETiseditedandcheckedbylotsofrenownedscholarsandexpertsineducation,soithasitsownuniquefeaturesandspecialauthorities.Sothisthesistriestodoaresearchondiscoursemarkers,regardingthereadingcomprehensiontextsinNMETas
8、theresearchsubject.ThethesisinvestigatesthediscoursemarkersinNMETtofindouttheirfrequencyi
