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The author discusses the category of coherence and the variety of linguistic resources available for its manifestation and presents a research that aimed at analyzing the expression of coherence through the use of connectives in TED talks. Connectives like ‘so’, ‘also’, and some other performing the function of structuring texts are a common type of discourse markers in the English language. While DM in general have been widely explored in earlier studies, few have dealt with connectives particularly in a specific genre on the basis of corpus data. The use of corpus linguistics for language description comprises the majority of its use for language learning. A number of smaller and often genre-specific corpora has emerged but, these smaller 'in-house' corpora do not usually spread beyond the institution where they have been created (Aston 1995). In this work the author describes an in-house corpus of TED talks designed specifically for biological students’ needs and investigates how the application of corpus linguistics to pedagogy, ESP and AEP in particular, enhances undergraduate science students’ ability to discuss their theses. Concordancing tasks were integrated into classroom teaching and made use of in-house corpus of TED talks. Concordancing tasks were designed to focus on DM usage identified in students' ability to discuss their own and related research.