Abstract
This study aimed to illuminate the role of interactional metadiscourse markers in English and Persian news articles about 9/11 events. For this purpose, 30 English and Persian news reports (15 from each) were collected randomly. In order to explore the frequency of these types of metadiscourse and their supposedly significant difference s in both sets of data, Hyland classification system was utilized. The findings from the research illustrated a significant difference in distribution of metadiscourse markers in the corpus due to the fact that American journalist employed interactional metadiscourse markers more frequently in their news articles. Moreover, Iranian journalists inclined not use self-mention and engagement markers due to their reader responsibility and their writing styles in formal contexts. The results of the present study might offer insights to pedagogical implication of this aspect of metadiscourse for journalism students.
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