6df7f9ec-5112-45e5-b4a5-fc8eb09e675b20230224055230079naun:naunmdt@crossref.orgMDT DepositInternational Journal of Education and Information Technologies2074-131610.46300/9109http://www.naun.org/cms.action?id=3037224202322420231710.46300/9109.2023.17https://npublications.com/journals/educationinformation/2023.phpYuanyuanChenAdvanced Studies Graduate School, Lyceum of the Philippines University, Manila, 1002 PhilippinesA contrastive study of the current situation of the use of discourse markers by English learners and native speakers is of great significance to the study of the inheritance and communication of discourse markers. In daily life communication, we should pay attention to strengthening the use of discourse markers. On the basis of improving the ability to use discourse markers, strengthen the important role of explicit language in English teaching, so that the development and influence of discourse markers can be further expanded in the context of the diversified development of world culture and language, and at the same time, help the diversified integration and development of discourse markers.22420232242023161https://npublications.com/journals/educationinformation/2023/a022008-001(2023).pdf10.46300/9109.2023.17.1https://npublications.com/journals/educationinformation/2023/a022008-001(2023).pdfC. T Li, “A study of pragmatic functions of the discourse marker ‘you see’,” Foreign Lang. Educ., vol. 5, pp. 78-79, 2015. F. H. Liu, “Review on the pragmatic functions of discourse marker ‘you know’ in China,” J. Inn. Mong. Univ. Natl., vol. 1, pp. 56-61, 2017. Y. Z. Li, C. H. Li, “Discourse markers and pragmatic inferences,” Foreign Lang. Teach., vol. 4, pp. 23-26, 2017. H. Wang, Y. F. Ge, “The influence of speakers’ roles and their relations on discourse marker use,” J. Shandong Agric. Univ., 2004. M. Li, X. R. Chen, “Chinese English majors’ acquisition of the discourse marker ‘well’: an empirical study,” Foreign Lang. Teach. Res., vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 23-27, 2017. L. F. Wang, W. H. Zhu, “A corpus-based study of the use of discourse markers in Chinese EFL learners’ spoken English,” Foreign Lang. Res., vol. 3, pp. 12-15, 2015. 10.1016/0378-2166(79)90032-8E. Keller, “Gambits: conversational strategy signals,” J. Pragmatics, vol. 3, no. 3-4, pp. 219-238, 1979. 10.1080/01638539409544883A. Knott, R. Dale, “Using linguistic phenomena to motivate a set of coherence relations,” Discourse Processes, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 35-62, 1994. 10.1016/s0378-2166(98)00027-7U. Lenk, “Discourse markers and global coherence in conversation,” J. Pragmatics, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 245-257, 1998. 10.1515/text.1.1988.8.3.243W. C. Mann, S. A. Thompson, “Rhetorical structure theory: Toward a functional theory of text organization,” Text Interdiscip. J. Study Discourse, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 243-281, 1988. B. J. F. Meyer, D. N. Brandt, G. J. Bluth, “Use of author’s textual schema: Key for ninth’s graders’ comprehension,” Reading Res. Q., vol.16, pp. 72-103, 1980. L. Polanyi, R. J. H. Scha, “The Syntax of Discourse,” Text and Talk, vol. 3, pp. 261-270, 1983.