Identifying Rhetorical Need of Indonesian Scholars Publishing Research in International Journals: a Corpus-Based Study  

Oleh:

Sanjaya, I. Nyoman Suka ; Sitawati, Anak Agung Raka ; Suciani, Ni Ketut

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 3, page 89-99.
Topik: hedges; Indonesian research articles; English research articles; rhetorical need analysis
Fulltext: hal 89.pdf (11.0MB)

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Indonesian academics are now under constant pressure to publish their research in international journals as the Indonesian academic reward system has determined that to move up to a certain academic rank they need to have at least one research published in an international journal. Yet there is a paucity of research studies examining the rhetorical need of Indonesian academics wishing to publish in English language international journals. The present need-analytic, corpus-based study sought to analyze the rhetorical need of Indonesian academics reporting their research in English for international publication. More specifically, the study was designed to examine the extent to whichEnglish and Indonesian scholars differ significantly from each other in terms of rate of use of hedges when they write research articles in their respective L1s. To this end, a corpus of 26 Indonesian Applied Linguistics research articleswas compared with a corpus of 26 English Applied Linguistics research articles written by native speakers of the respective languages in terms of frequency of use of hedges, i.e. rhetorical features, such as may, perhaps, suggest, used to withhold complete commitment to the truth-value of propositions. The research articles analyzed in the study were published between 2007 and 2010. The assumption of the study was that when they report their research in English Indonesian academics will deploy rhetorical characteristics inherent in the Indonesian academic writing. The statistical analysis revealed that English research articles contained significantly more hedges than their Indonesian counterparts (Mann-Whitney U = 68.00, n1 = n2 = 26, p< 0.05, r = - 0.69), suggesting that Indonesian academics are indeed in need of instruction which specifically focuses on how to hedge propositions in English.

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