A Comparative Analysis of the Frequencies and Text Coverages of Genearal Service and Academic Words in Research Articles on Business Administration, Biology, and English Education

Decorous exploitation of reporting verbs is a fundamental component of academic writing. It facilitates in constructing authors’ assertions as well as situating those assertions with the previously published literature in the field (Bloch, 2010). This study has been carried out to examine the phenomena of reporting verbs in the research articles of Education and English written by Pakistani and native speakers of English. A corpus-based approach has been adopted in this study. The corpus of the study comprises of 152 research articles, authored by native and Pakistani researchers in the fields of Education and English. The findings of the study exhibited dissimilarities in the ways the authors accredit the other sources in their work and demonstrate the reported statements in Pakistani and native corpora. This study will assist the research scholars to enhance their awareness regarding an appropriate selection of reporting verbs in their academic writings.

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Comparative Analysis on the Primary English Curricula of Japan and Indonesia

TARBIYA Journal of Education in Muslim Society ◽

10.15408/tjems.v3i1.3224 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 96-106

Author(s):

T Tuswadi

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Primary Schools ◽

English Education ◽

Muslim Society ◽

Similarities And Differences ◽

Compulsory Subject

Abstract Primary English education in Indonesia and Japan is developing rapidly nowadays. Children in both countries have started to learn English since they are at least in grade four or five. Although English is not a compulsory subject in primary schools, the interest of schools in the two countries toward English education for children is getting higher. This paper tried to reveal the similarities and differences of primary English curiculum contents in Indonesia and in Japan in order to understand better about the development of English education in primary schools in the two countries. Abstrak Pendidikan bahasa Inggris dasar di Indonesia dan Jepang berkembang pesat saat ini. Anak-anak di kedua negara tersebut sudah mulai belajar bahasa Inggris setidaknya sejak mereka kelas empat atau kelas lima. Meskipun bahasa Inggris bukan mata pelajaran wajib di sekolah dasar, minat sekolah-sekolah di kedua negara terhadap pendidikan bahasa Inggris untuk anak-anak semakin tinggi. Tulisan ini mencoba untuk mengungkapkan persamaan dan perbedaan isi kurikulum bahasa Inggris dasar di Indonesia dan di Jepang untuk memahami lebih baik tentang perkembangan pendidikan bahasa Inggris di tingkat sekolah dasar di kedua negara. How to Cite : Tuswadi. (2016). Comparative Analysis of the Primary English Curricula of Japan and Indonesia. TARBIYA: Journal Of Education In Muslim Society, 3(1), 96-106. doi:10.15408/tjems.v3i1.3224. Permalink/DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15408/tjems.v3i1.3224

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A Comparative Analysis of Co-Production in Public Services

10.20944/preprints202104.0608.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Pwint Kay Khine ◽

Jianing Mi ◽

Raza Shahid

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Public Administration ◽

Service Providers ◽

Research Trends ◽

Research Articles ◽

Future Studies ◽

Production Studies ◽

Production Study ◽

Service Production ◽

Conceptual Paper

The purpose of this study is to explore conceptual approaches in co-production studies and to examine current research trends of the study. The conceptual paper includes research articles related to co-production in public administration field. By thoroughly scrutinizing 32 research works of co-production, this study highlights major loopholes in the field of the study. The contributions of the study are: (1) identifying two common characteristics of co-production, (2) categorising three types of co-producing by end-users, and (3) finding that goals and success of co-production are more beneficial for service providers though its initial approach is citizen-centric approach. We suggest that future studies should be (1) to focus on reasons for co-production failures or success, (2) to discover further hindrances for co-production in service production, (3) to examine influencing factors on service providers as well as institutional impacts on co-production process, and (4) to include practical assessment in co-production study.

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A Comparison of Two Genres: Lexical Bundles in the Discourse of Applied Linguistics

Atlantis Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies ◽

10.28914/atlantis-2021-43.2.05 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 43 (2) ◽

pp. 90-109

Author(s):

Razieh Gholaminejad

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Comparative Study ◽

Present Article ◽

Applied Linguistics ◽

Research Articles ◽

Functional Type ◽

Lexical Bundles ◽

Discourse Functions

The present article is a corpus-based descriptive/comparative study of lexical bundles (LBs) in two university genres: textbooks (TBs) and research articles (RAs) on applied linguistics. It aims to identify the LBs used in the two genres, compare them on the basis of their functional type and frequency and explore how they are related to genre. To this end, four-word LBs were identified in two corpora drawn from applied linguistics TBs and RAs. The comparative analysis revealed that there are interesting differences between the two genres in terms of discourse functions: the occurrence of LBs in the TBs was lower than in the RAs; attitudinal/modality LBs occurred more frequently in the TBs than in the RAs; epistemic LBs occurred more frequently in the RAs than in the TBs; discourse organizers occurred more frequently in the RAs than in the TBs; and time, place and text reference LBs occurred almost twice as frequently in the RAs. The findings build on research into the variations of genres in terms of the use and functions of LBs in discipline-specific corpora.

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Qualitative comparative analysis in the information systems discipline: a literature review and methodological recommendations

Internet Research ◽

10.1108/intr-09-2020-0529 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Jens Mattke ◽

Christian Maier ◽

Tim Weitzel ◽

Jason Bennett Thatcher

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Comparative Analysis ◽

Literature Review ◽

Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽

Status Quo ◽

Research Articles ◽

Full Potential ◽

Content Type ◽

Is Research ◽

The Status

PurposeQualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is a promising, powerful method that is increasingly used for IS research. However, the Information Systems (IS) discipline still lacks a shared understanding of how to conduct and report QCA. This paper introduces the fundamental concepts of QCA, summarizes the status quo, and derives recommendations for future research.Design/methodology/approachA descriptive literature review in major IS outlets summarizes how and why QCA has been used in the IS discipline, critically evaluates the status quo, and derives recommendations for future QCA studies.FindingsThe literature review reveals 32 empirical research articles in major IS journals that have used the QCA method. Articles applied QCA to a broad range of research topics at the individual and organizational levels, mainly as a standalone analysis for theory development, elaboration and testing. The authors also provide evidence that most published IS research articles do not take full advantage of the potential QCA, such as analyzing necessary causal conditions or testing the robustness of QCA results. The authors provide seven actionable recommendations for future IS research using QCA.Originality/valueThe literature review assesses the status quo of QCA’s application in the IS discipline and provides specific recommendations on how IS researchers can leverage the full potential of QCA.

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