Abstract
Writing an academic article requires researchers to provide support for their works by learning how to cite the works of others. Various studies regarding the analysis of citation in M.A theses have been done, while little work has been done on comparison of citations among ELT scopus journal articles, and so the dearth of research in this area demands further investigation into citations in articles. To this aim, the researcher of the present study compares the use of citations between 60 Iranian and international ELT sopus journal articles. Citation frameworks are Petric (4) and Thompson and Tribble (3). Each framework is further divided into sub-categories. The findings show that Iranian researchers unlike the international ones tend to use integral more than non-integral citations, according to Thomspson and Tribble's (3) framework, indicating that they emphasize the writers rather than information. Analysis of citations based on Petric's (4) framework demonstrates that the use of citation for non-attribution functions is found to be considerably lower in Iranian articles than in international articles. In conclusion, the study argues that functions of citations should receive more attention in ELT courses to raise the awareness level of researchers in order to avoid the practice of plagiarism.
Highlights
Citation can be considered a central issue in writing an acceptable research from various angels
The first step taken in the analysis of citation types in different sections of English Language Teaching (ELT) scopus journals was to run a word count to determine the length of the corpus
A total of 1294 citations were identified in 161805 words of Iranian ELT scopus journals and 1805 citations were identified in 195815 words of International ELT scopus journals
Summary
Citation can be considered a central issue in writing an acceptable research from various angels. Despite different approaches and methods in these different fields, all researchers need to know how to cite the prior publications or authors in their work, because “researcher writers do not want only to show their own credibility in research” [2] Writing a research consists of different sections such as literature review, methodology, discussion, etc. When the writers are going to cite other scholars' works, each section of research obliges the writers to use a particular function of citation, for example in the methodology section the writers use other scholars' frameworks, questionnaires or in the result section use different formulae, writers are obliged to use particular kinds of citation in order to be suitable.
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