Analyses of Rhetorical Moves Structure and Verb Tense of Abstracts in Master’s Foreign Language Theses  

Oleh:

Utami, Leo Candra Wahyu ; Yusroh, Mufidah

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 1, page 972-979.
Topik: Rhetorical moves; Verb Tense; Abstract
Fulltext: hal 972.pdf (16.58MB)

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A challenging task of non native writers is to write abstract of research article which is the first thing read by the readers. This study intends to examine abstracts of Indonesian Master Theses Students of English Language Teaching Program from two intentions. The first intention is to examine rhetorical move structure of the abstracts by applying Hyland’s model. The second intention is to examine grammatical constructions of the abstracts focusing on verb tenses. The verb tenses are going to be analyzed from every move of the abstract. This study employs mix method and the data are collected by using AntConccorpus program. This study will discuss the preliminary findings of an on-going study on the above issues. The implementation of this study is beneficial for non native writers in academic writing especially as guidelines to construct a good abstract of this purpose.

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