“…Discourse markers are items external to propositional content which are useful in locating the utterance in an interpersonal and interactive dimension, in connecting and structuring phrasal, inter-phrasal and extra-phrasal elements in discourse, and in marking some on-going cognitive processes and attitudes. (Bazzanella 2006:456) Los conectores y operadores argumentativos son grupo específico de MD (Montolío, 1998;Martín Zorraquino & Portolés Lázaro, 1999;DPDE, 2008;Fuentes Rodríguez, 2009;Martínez, 2011;Borrego Nieto, 2013;La Rocca, 2012;Holgado Lage, 2017;Casado Velarde, 2000;Cortés Rodríguez & Camacho Adarve, 2005) y aparecen a partir del nivel MCER A2 en el ámbito específico de Coherence and Cohesion, Identifying clues and inferring (Spoken and written), Overall written production, Creative writing, Written Report and Essays, Strategies to explain a new concept (MCER 2002-Companion Volume 2018. En cambio, en el Plan Curricular del Instituto Cervantes (apartado 1.2) encontramos una gradación de A1 a C2 en Tácticas y estrategias pragmáticas (PCIC, 2006, apartado 6).…”