NNES RAs: How ELF RAs inform literacy brokers and English for research publication instructors

Farley, A. Fay

doi:10.1016/j.jeap.2018.02.002

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“…The recurring pattern comprised findings followed by reference to previous research and (un)expected outcomes followed by explanation. From the contrastive analysis perspective (i.e., the approach to compare the texts written in two contrasting language, such as between English and a local language), previous research contrasting Persian and English RAs (Amirian et al, 2008), Malay and English RAs (Kim et al, 2016) or Indonesian and English RAs (Farley, 2018;Mirahayuni, 2002) conforms to the consensus as mentioned earlier. However, Loi et al (2015) found that findings move was possibly followed by a deduction or the other way around.…”

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

Suherdi

Kurniawan

Lubis

2020

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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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 A total of 113 unpublished ELT research articles from a state educational university in Bandung was selected as the target corpus.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).

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

Suherdi

Kurniawan

Lubis

2020

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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“…The global increase of the publish‐or‐perish culture and the growing dominance of English as a lingua franca in research communication and international academic publishing (Curry & Lillis, 2019; Lillis & Curry, 2010; Mauranen, 2003; Mauranen et al, 2010; Montgomery, 2013) are driving scholars from both Anglophone and non‐Anglophone countries to publish in English. For instance, academics from Spain (Mur‐Dueñas, 2013), Russia (Shchemeleva, 2021; Smirnova et al, 2021), Indonesia (Farley, 2018), Tunisia (Abdeljaoued & Labassi, 2020) and especially China (Luo & Hyland, 2019; Mu, 2020; Tian et al, 2016; Zheng & Guo, 2018), to name just a few, have been reported to be under enormous pressure to publish internationally. These scholars are referred to as English as an additional language (EAL) scholars.…”

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Using online machine translation in international scholarly writing and publishing: A longitudinal case of a Chinese engineering scholar

Zou,

Gong,

2023

Learned Publishing

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Scholars who use English as an additional language (EAL) worldwide are under increasing pressure to write and publish in English due to the pervasive publish‐or‐perish culture and the growing dominance of English in academia. While previous studies have focused either on textual differences between EAL scholars' writing and native writers', or explored the difficulties EAL scholars meet and strategies they employ in the process, this paper examines a longitudinal case of a Chinese engineering scholar using online machine translation (MT) to support his academic writing and publishing in English. Drawing from the technology acceptance model as the theoretical background, this study shows that online MT can be a crucial support for scholars with limited English proficiency in the process of preparing a manuscript, submitting it and communicating with editors and reviewers. Frequently occurring problems in machine‐translated academic texts include improper use of technical terms, use of informal language and the inclusion of grammatical mistakes. However, in the last decade, online MT has made great improvements in academic translation. We believe these findings can empower EAL scholars to effectively use online MT in academic English writing and inspire educators to help novice scholars mobilize various high‐tech tools such as online MT to support their writing and international publishing.

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“…The key to successful bilingual publishing lies in translation (Bartholomäus et al, 2015). Translation-mediated English publishing is common and plays an essential role in helping non-English native-speakers transcend the linguistic barriers (Bennett, 2013a;Burgess & Lillis, 2013;DiGiacomo, 2013;Farley, 2018;Kim, 2019;Lillis & Curry, 2006;McGrath, 2014;Salager-Meyer, 2008;Sionis, 1995). However, translation in academic publishing is rarely explored due to its invisibility (Pisanski Peterlin, 2019).…”

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Translation-mediated bilingual publishing as a development strategy

2022

LANS-TTS

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Local-language journals that include topics of regional interest and are published by regional institutions in the non-Anglophone world (peripheral journals, also called Global South journals in Development Studies) are underrepresented in major indexes and are struggling due to a lack of contributors, reviewers and financial support. Some have resorted to translation-mediated bilingual publishing as a development strategy to maintain their identity and increase their visibility and impact. To date, this strategy has received scant attention in the literature. The current research aims to explore why peripheral journals resort to the strategy and the ways in which it is put into practice. The overviews, instructions to authors and bilingually presented articles of 68 social science and humanities journals were reviewed through content analysis. The results suggest that the journals implement the strategy out of pragmatic and ideological concerns. It seems that the current use of translation as a development strategy is still an improvized mechanism instead of a standard model. Although many follow a similar pattern in some respects, there is a lack of management in the translation process and no agreed norms on cost coverage, translation strategy and presentation formats. This points to the necessity of further effort being expended to optimize the strategy in the future.

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NNES RAs: How ELF RAs inform literacy brokers and English for research publication instructors

Cited by 12 publications

References 33 publications

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

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

Using online machine translation in international scholarly writing and publishing: A longitudinal case of a Chinese engineering scholar

Translation-mediated bilingual publishing as a development strategy

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