Abstract
In recent years, genre studies have attracted the attention of many researchers. The aim of the present study was to observe the differences in generic structure of abstract written by English native and non-native (Iranian) students in two disciplines of mathematics and applied linguistics. To this end, twenty native English students’ abstract texts from each discipline and the same number of non-native (Iranian) ones were selected. In this study, Hyland’s (2000) five‐move model was used to identify the rhetorical structure of the four sets of texts. After analyzing each text, the main moves were extracted and the frequencies of each one were calculated and compared. The cross-disciplinary and cross‐linguistic analyses reveal that linguistics abstracts follow a conventional scheme, but mathematics abstracts in these two languages do not exhibit the usual norms in terms of moves. Besides, greater difference in move structure is seen across languages in mathematics. The findings of the study have some pedagogical implications for academic writing courses for graduate students, especially students from non-English backgrounds in order to facilitate their successful acculturation into these disciplinary communities.
Highlights
As a result of the shortcomings of register and discourse analysis, in recent years there has been attention to genre centered approaches such as analysis of written and spoken discourse in the applied linguistics field
The findings indicate that generic frameworks mirror linguistic borders and writers follow the national patterns that the communities merit
The main purpose of this study was to find differences and similarities in type and frequency of move structure of research article abstracts written by English native and nonnative (Iranian) students in applied linguistic and mathematics .The findings of the present study can be helpful to ESP, EFL and EAP teachers to instruct their novice students these schematic pattern and students, in turn, can utilize the discovered model in their abstract writing
Summary
As a result of the shortcomings of register and discourse analysis, in recent years there has been attention to genre centered approaches such as analysis of written and spoken discourse in the applied linguistics field. The purpose behind these researches has been providing all-inclusive models for English non-native speaker students, regarding different genes of their disciplines. The other two moves, the introduction move (M1) and the conclusion move (M5) occur less frequently
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