جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "زبانشناسی کاربردی" در نشریات گروه "ادبیات و زبان ها"

Investigating the rhetorical patterns of research article (RA) sections elucidates the complex nature of academic literacy, especially, for non-native researchers. Although the literature review (LR) has a central role in establishing the foundation of the study, less clarity is available concerning its unique complexities. This paper thus explores the generic structure of the literature review section (LR) of 122 RAs published in Iranian journals (IrRAs) and international journals (IntRAs) using Swales’ (1990) Create A Research Space (CARS) model. The IrRAs (n=61) were selected from seven established Iranian journals and the IntRAs (n=61) were chosen from seven professional journals with an impact factor greater than 1. Two coders identified the moves and steps of several RAs via negotiated coding. The results indicated that both groups had approximately similar patterns regarding the moves and steps. In both groups, ‘establishing a territory’ (M1) and ‘occupying a niche’ (M3) were the most and least used moves, respectively. Likewise, both groups used M1 and M3 to start and finish LR, respectively. A tendency for employing the irregular move patterns in IntRAs and the regular move patterns in IrRAs was also observed. These findings help novice researchers to better tackle the challenges of LR writing.

Recently, comparative investigations of academic Research Articles (RAs) between native and non-native writers of English have been the scene of considerable debate. This may translate into insider norm knowledge to help non-native academic writers approximate the native speaker’s generic conventions of academic delivery. In this spirit, Halliday’s notion of Grammatical Metaphor (GM) was used in this study to compare the introduction sections of Applied Linguistics RAs by Iranian and native speaker academic writers in Applied Linguistics. A random sampling was conducted to arrive at twenty-five RAs written by Iranian writers, and twenty-five by native speaker ones. The introduction sections of these RAs were analyzed synchronically using Halliday’s types of Ideational Grammatical Metaphor. The article-to-article comparison data pointed to no significant statistical difference between the Iranian and native speaker writers’ deployment of Ideational GM in the introduction sections of the selected RAs, although in the overall number of types of GM used, the difference was significant. The results show that in a 13-cells (100.0%) scheme, expected frequencies lie below 5, where the minimum expected cell frequency is 1.0. As such, based on significant level (1.0<5), the difference was statistically significant (100.0%) scheme, expected frequencies lie below 5, where the minimum expected cell frequency is 1.0. As such, based on significant level (1.0<5), the difference was statistically significant.The findings of this research might be helpful for curriculum developers and syllabus designers, by way of a need for the inclusion of suitable writing instruction practices and norms which could not only familiarize EFL students with academic and scientific writing conventions, but work also to increase their awareness about the real lexicogrammatical and syntactic dimensions of re-mapping that powerful semantic and systemic processes like GM trigger at the level of the clause.

Although researchers, postgraduate students, and university professors are under tremendous pressure to publish or perish, there exist few widely acknowledged rating scales or checklists for evaluating manuscripts submitted to journals in applied linguistics. To top it all, the existent peer-reviewing criteria are typically not publicly shared; thus, peer-reviewing is a closed, occluded genre. To fill this lacuna in applied linguistics, this research critically analyzed the evaluation scales, existing review criteria, and available documents from 18 journals, two publishing institutions, and APA guidelines in order to come up with a comprehensive checklist for evaluating research articles in applied linguistics. The analysis of the data through inductive content analysis revealed 43 categories, which were later classified under six main themes. It was found that researchers must be aware of the practicalities of research, include the essentials in their manuscript, and appeal to editors by adding elements of face validity. Having met these requirements, researchers must enjoy excellent composition skills and adhere to the fundamental principles in research ethics in order to be able to write a research paper having high overall value. The paper concludes with several implications for researchers and opens up some avenues for future research.

This study intends to investigate the realizations and functional patterns of shell nouns in Applied Linguistics research articles.  To this end, fifty research articles in the field of Applied Linguistic were selected from Journal of English for Academic Purposes and journal of English for Specific Purposes published by Elsevier.  The articles were analyzed for the realizations of shell nouns based on the list suggested by Hinkel (2004).  As to the functional patterns, Schmid’s (2000) classification of functional patterns of shell nouns was also adopted.  Findings reported that some shell nouns are used more frequently while some were put aside.  Findings also reported that writers of research articles in the field of Applied Linguistics used functional patterns suggested by Schmid (2000).  Findings of this study could have implications by raising the awareness of writers of Applied Linguistics research articles, especially in EFL contexts, concerning the use of shell nouns and functional patterns in which shell nouns are used.