The Effect of Spoken Discourse Markers on Improving Undergraduate EFL Students' Oral Fluency

Abstract

This study aimed at investigating the effect of spoken discourse markers on Sudanese undergraduate EFL students at Ahfad University, Sudan, to explore their role in enhancing students' learning of Spoken discourse marker to improve oral fluency. The study followed the descriptive inferential method, and employed a pretest and a posttest as a tool of data collection. The study sample is represented in 70 students (35 control group and 35 experimental group) who were randomly chosen. The data collected were the participants’ tests scores. The collected data was analyzed by using Statistical Packages of Social Sciences (SPSS).The results showed that there was a statistically significant difference between control and experimental groups in the posttest scores, and that the means of experimental group are greater than that of control group in the posttest scores. The study concluded that spoken discourse markers improved EFL students’ oral fluency. Suggestions for further studies were discussed at the end of the paper.