scholarly journals A Contrastive Study on Transitional Markers in English Language Teaching Research Articles Written by English and Persian Academic Writers

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mansooreh Elahi ◽  
Mohammad Taghi Badeleh
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Contrastive Study ◽  
Teaching Research

scholarly journals THE USE OF HEDGING DEVICES IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS ACADEMIC DISCOURSE: THE CASE OF READING IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING RESEARCH ARTICLES

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Tuan Anh
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The Difference

Hedging enables academic writers be able to mitigate claims and minimize the impositions that may be found in such claims (Hyland, 1996). Although the literature has had vast research on hedging in research articles, not much has been known about the difference or similarity among journals in one field in the use of hedging devices. Using the document analysis method, the present study aims to make a comparative analysis of hedging in two linguistics research journals, namely Reading in a Foreign Language (RFL) and English Language Teaching (ELT), in order to investigate what hedging forms and functions are most frequently used in RFL and ELT, and how hedging forms and functions are distributed in the Introduction, Results, Discussions and Conclusions sections in the two journals. Based on the data analyzed, it was found that RFL and ELT research article writers tend to have the same preference for the use of different hedging forms for different equivalent purposes and functions. This similar hedging pattern is believed to be of value to those who are trained as academic writers in the field of linguistics.

scholarly journals THEME PATTERNS IN INTRODUCTION SECTIONS OF RESEARCH ARTICLES WRITTEN BY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Afriani Afriani ◽  
Refnaldi Refnaldi
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
English Department ◽  
Linear Pattern ◽  
Language And Literature

This study analyzed theme patterns of 41 introduction sections of research articles written by undergraduate students of Indonesia, especially students of the English department in Universitas Negeri Padang. The sources of data are from e-journal archives of E-journal English Language and Literature (JELL) and Journal of English Language Teaching (JELT) of Universitas Negeri Padang. The data were analyzed by classifying the theme and rheme structure of clause sequences and then determining the patterns. This research is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach. The result of the findings shows that a simple linear pattern (42,70%) found to be the most dominant pattern of the theme found in the data. In addition, new patterns (27,35%) are also frequently used in the data. These findings indicate that most students tend to write their ideas more cohesive than coherent as the lack of using an interpersonal theme and derived hyper-theme pattern found in the data.

Bridges for Peace: A Journey in Three Stages (So Far)

10.47908/11/5 ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 66-80
Author(s):  
Gerry Yokota
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Peace Studies ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Japanese Art ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
The University

Gerry Yokota shows how over the course of her career, from a beginning academic to an experienced professor, she merged the three aspects of work required of career academics (teaching, research, and service to the university) to shape a life that is satisfying and revolves around what means the most to her: issues related to peace. She discusses the integration of the Japanese art form, Noh, peace studies, and English language teaching with cognitive linguistics serving as the bridge to connect these to bring them to life in the classroom.

scholarly journals The Use of First Person Pronouns in Master’s Theses Written in English by Turkish Authors

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Cemre Isler
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
The Other ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
First Person ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Low Degree

The purpose of this study is to investigate and compare the use of first person pronouns (I, my, me, we, our, us) and their functions in creating authorial self in 20 master’s theses written in English by Turkish authors and 20 research articles written in English by non-Turkish authors. Master’s theses used in the study were written in the field of English Language Teaching in twelve different Turkish universities and they were selected from the database of Turkish Council of Higher Education. Research articles used in the study were also written in the field of English Language Teaching and they were selected from five different journals: Applied Linguistics, System, TESOL Quarterly, English for Specific Purposes, and ELT Journal. For analyzing the data, each occurrence of first person pronouns in the theses and articles were coded and examined in order to find out the functions they serve. Results revealed a large difference in the use of first person pronouns and the functions they have. Turkish authors used these pronouns quite rarely and generally the use of these pronouns signaled low degree of authorial self; on the other hand, non-Turkish authors used these pronouns more frequently and they mostly preferred to use them for expressing greater degree of authorial self.

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