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Arsyad, Safnil; Hakim, Husnul; Astria, Hellen – Online Submission, 2021
The abstract is an important part of a research article; it is a research summary that must be attached, presented together with the research article. Therefore, the quality of an abstract is explicitly significant. This article aims to determine the similarities and differences of the rhetorical moves and linguistic features of abstracts of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Authors, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yuan, Rongjie – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2022
Material development is important for training beginner student interpreters, as it guides the direction of interpreting learning. One key principle is difficulty progression, which requires a good knowledge of the indicators of difficulty. Since text structure outweighs words and sentences in the information processing of consecutive…
Descriptors: Translation, Oral Language, Language Processing, Memory
Öztürk, Ismet – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2018
Since the publication of the book Genre Analysis (CUP) by Swales (1990), many studies have focused on the study of the rhetorical organisation of different sections of research articles (RAs). The organisation of RA introductions has received most of the attention. However, the focus has generally been on the structure of introductions without…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Periodicals, Computational Linguistics, Literary Genres
Mozaffari, Seyedeh Hamideh – Language Teaching Research, 2017
Despite the preponderance of theoretical and empirical evidence that suggests the use of pair/group work to promote second language learning, it is still unclear who can best form high performance groups. Should students be allowed to choose their working partners, or should teachers themselves assign students to pairs? This study set out to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Collaborative Writing, Qualitative Research, Accuracy
Hoang, Thi Van Yen; Rojas-Lizana, Isolda – Cogent Education, 2015
This article shows how universities represent themselves through the use of language on their institutional websites. Specifically, it compares and contrasts how a long established university, the University of Melbourne and a young university, Macquarie University construct their institutional identities and build up a relationship with potential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Web Sites, Universities
Suntara, Watinee; Usaha, Siriluck – English Language Teaching, 2013
The previous studies on abstracts (e.g., Santos, 1996; Samraj, 2002; Pho, 2008) illustrate that disciplinary variation in research article abstracts is discernible. However, the studies of abstracts from two related disciplines are still limited. The present study aimed to explore the rhetorical moves of abstracts in the fields of linguistics and…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Research Reports, Documentation, Discourse Analysis

Schleppegrell, Mary J.; Colombi, M. Cecilia – Written Communication, 1997
Compares Spanish and English essays written by bilingual writers. Describes each writer's discourse-organizational and clausal-combining strategies. Suggests that organization on the discourse level is reflected in the type of clausal combinations chosen by the writers at the sentence level. (TB)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, English
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1988
Ten articles are presented in this volume on contrastive linguistics. The articles and authors are as follows: "Contrastive Grammar: Theory and Practice" (F. Aarts and H. Wekker); "On the Semantic and Morphological Status of Reversative Verbs in English and German" (W.-P. Funk); "The Problem of Directionality in…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Annotated Bibliographies, Arabic, Arabs