A genre analysis of research article ‘findings and discussion’ sections written by Indonesian undergraduate EFL students

Bibliographic Data

ID21240587
AuthorsDidi Suherdi (0000-0002-2339-6744, Indonesia University of Education), Eri Kurniawan (0000-0001-6128-5466, Indonesia University of Education), Arif Husein Lubis (0000-0002-5457-4777, Indonesia University of Education)
Year2020
Volume10
Issue1
Pages59-72
Publication date2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIndonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2301-9468 • E-ISSN: 2502-6747
PublisherUniversitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17509/ijal.v10i1.24989
OpenAlexW3033788701
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited11

The quality of findings and discussion (FD) section in a research article is crucial to elucidate the results of a particular inquiry and to situate the significance of the results in the body of knowledge through publications in scientific journals. Previous academic genre analysis has generated several models to help novice writers develop the rhetorical moves of the FD sections across disciplines. However, the study on the quality of the rhetorical moves in the undergraduate EFL students’ research articles is still scarce. Hence, this study seeks to examine the manifestation of rhetorical moves in the findings and discussion sections written by Indonesian undergraduate EFL students. A total of 113 unpublished ELT research articles from a state educational university in Bandung was selected as the target corpus. AntMover 1.10 was employed as the analysis tool. The top-down approach was carried out to obtain the existing rhetorical structure using Ruiying and Allison’s (2003) framework as the guideline. The bottom-up approach was used to scrutinize the linguistic realizations of the rhetorical moves. The findings demonstrated that, in the move level, most of the students’ FD sections had manifested the four moves, i.e., providing background information, reporting results, summarizing results, and commenting on results. However, in the step level, a number of FD sections did not provide detailed information regarding the sequence of the findings presentation, the analysis procedure to obtain the findings, the explanation for the findings, and the highlight of the significance of the findings. The randomized rhetorical patterns were also dominant. It can downgrade the clarity and rigor of the FD sections. Despite that, the linguistic realizations of the moves, particularly the tense and sentence voice, mostly conformed to the norms. The findings may serve as a reference to develop the teaching materials of English for research publication purposes (ERPP)

Epistemology · Indonesian · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · English Language Learning and Teaching · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning

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