Title: THE MANIFESTATION OF MOVE-STEP PATTERNS IN EFL STUDENTS’ RESEARCH ARTICLES: A CORPUS-BASED DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Abstract: Banyak penelitian telah mengeksplorasi pentingnya pola retoris dalam mengkonstruksi bagian temuan dan diskusi (FD-- Many studies have explored the importance of rhetorical moves in constructing findings and discussion section of a research article through move analysis. They focus on how professional writers, journal article writers, and postgraduate students manifest those moves. Thus, this study aims to explore the manifestation of rhetorical moves, their constituent steps, and the discourse patterns in the undergraduate students’ research articles’ F&D sections. Embracing the nature of corpus-based discourse analysis by using descriptive qualitative content analysis method and AntMover 1.10 as the analysis tool, the researcher purposively selected 113 from 138 students’ RAs as the corpus, named IURAFS. A synthesized model of rhetorical moves of F&D section from three previous internationally used models was utilized as the analysis guideline for the coding process. The analysis results in three conclusive points. First, in the sentence-level, the manifestation of moves and their constituent steps was still focused on the transparency of the findings and elaboration of similarities with the previous studies or literature. Second, in the text-level, the use of randomized move-step configuration, regardless of the existing variety of patterns within the other configurations was still preferred. Such a preference led to the third point, which portrays the coherence quality of their argumentation. The contribution of this study emphasizes the relationship between corpus-based discourse analysis, rhetorical competence, and the pedagogy of discourse patterns in academic writing course. Recommendations for further studies and pedagogical practices are also discussed.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-07-20
Language: en
Type: article
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