The context co-occurrence of the word please,as a discourse item,has been presented by searching SECCL(Spoken English Corpus of Chinese Learners),which accents its pragmatic functions of being speech organizing and communicative.

This pɑper describes the importɑnce of using discourse mɑrkers in teɑching English reɑding texts ɑnd teɑching ɑctivities which focus on using discourse mɑrkers to teɑch English reɑding texas well.

Students often adopt word-for-word translation method and produce many awkward Chinese-style English and English-style Chinese in their translation practice, which results from a lack of discourse awareness among college students.

And in translation activities, the use of metadiscourse embodies the discourse awareness of the translator, which helps the translator convey the thought of the original text faithfully and smoothly while conforming to the nature of the target language.

This paper, aiming at the problems which the students have in their English learning, points out that the students are neglecting the importance of the knowledge of discourse.