Sub-disciplinary variation in the move structure of English-medium research article introductions in applied linguistics

Do Xuan Hai *

* Corresponding author (dxhai@ctu.edu.vn)

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Received: 22 Mar 2016
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Accepted: 30 Mar 2017
Published: 31 Mar 2017
DOI: 10.22144/ctu.jen.2017.001
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Do, X. H. (2017). Sub-disciplinary variation in the move structure of English-medium research article introductions in applied linguistics. CTU Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development , (05), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.22144/ctu.jen.2017.001
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This article reports on a recent corpus and genre-based investigation of the move structure in research article introductions (RAIs) in two constituent areas of inquiry in applied linguistics, namely language teaching & learning and pragmatics & discourse analysis. The corpus consists of 30 RAIs extracted from 30 parent empirical research articles written by English native speakers and published in high impact English-medium applied linguistics journals between 2011 and 2013. The analytical tool was developed both with reference to Swales’ (1990, 2004) CARS models and a preliminary examination of the corpus built for this particular study. Findings revealed sub-disciplinary corpus-based variations of this schematic structure, both at the move and step tiers.
Keywords: CARS framework, genre analysis, move structure, research article introductions

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