Citation Practices in TESL Research Articles: A Comparative Study  

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Yeh, Chun-Chun

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Asian ESP Journal vol. 6 no. 2 (2010), page 40-63.
Topik: applied linguistics; citation; English for academic purposes (EAP); research articles
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In the past two decades, there has been a steadily increasing number of studies investigating different aspects of research writing. Among the discourse elements in research writing, “citation,” reference to previous literature, is argued to be a central feature that serves to persuade the reader of the soundness and novelty of one’s own work. The current corpusbased study uses two corpora of 40 research articles selected from two TESL journals in order to explore and compare the similarities and differences between international and Taiwanese scholars’ citation practices. Results show that the two corpora exhibit a number of similarities, such as a preference for summary/paraphrase and generalization over direct quotations; and an abundant use of citations in introductions. However, the analysis also found that Taiwanese scholars use fewer citations than their international counterparts. They use more dated and fewer recent references. In addition, they tend to avoid direct quotations Alongside these general tendencies, individual differences are also found among research texts in the same corpus.

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