Research Studies in Second Language Writing and in Contrastive Rhetoric

Cahyono, Bambang Yudi

doi:10.9744/kata.3.1.39-52

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“…There has been a general take such differences from typical native English writers would be linked to underperformance. Such perceptions have also been supported by findings in studies from several countries around the world, such as Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Japan, Turkey, and Indonesia (Fallatah, 2016;Zhang, Thuc, & Pramoolsook, 2012;Apple, 2012;Ozmen, 2016;Cahyono, 2001). All of these studies have shown similar conclusions, in which problems faced by students in writing abstracts were linked to low scores or weak performance in English courses.…”

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Revealing the rhetorical moves and linguistic patterns in discipline-related undergraduate thesis

Simanjuntak

2022

J. appl. linguist. lit.

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Previous studies have provided exciting findings for language variations in theses and dissertations. However, not many studies have revealed the rhetorical analysis of the undergraduate abstracts. This study investigated the rhetorical structure of undergraduate thesis abstracts to reveal the constructions of the genre by novice writers. It further explored the variations between two groups of writers, students with the native language of English and Indonesian students writing in English. The aim was to present the commonalities and differences within the genre and finally conclude the genre’s conventions. The corpus for this study consisted of 180 undergraduate thesis abstracts from 12 universities in the United States, New Zealand, and Indonesia from Computer Science. The findings of this study revealed certain conventions consisting of rhetorical moves and rhetorical strategies used to perform the rhetorical moves. Differences between native writers of English and non-native writers of English included the use of lexical items and lexico-grammatical constructions in presenting arguments and evidence. The study concluded that socio-cultural factors, such as institutional guidelines for thesis writing and students’ first language, may contribute to the genre's variations.

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Revealing the rhetorical moves and linguistic patterns in discipline-related undergraduate thesis

Simanjuntak

2022

J. appl. linguist. lit.

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“…Therefore, understanding across culture is of paramount importance in studying a language. It has been proved by some studies on writing, one of them that have been reviewed by Cahyono (2001) in his article. His review exhibited that students of ESL/EFL have a tendency in translating their L1 words into English by using the language patterns and based on their first language and culture convention they have.…”

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Cross Cultural Rhetoric Awareness of Undergraduate Thesis Introduction Section Written by Acehnese EFL Students

Usman

Rizkanisa

Samad

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scr. j. j. linguist. engl. teach.

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This study investigated cross cultural rhetoric awareness of introduction section by Acehnese EFL students. This study aimed at describing the rhetorical pattern and determine the cross cultural rhetoric awareness by looking at the rhetorical pattern in Introduction section. A qualitative method and content analysis were used in this study which analyzed the Introduction section. The data of this research was English undergraduate thesis written by ten Acehnese students as the documentation was applied as the instrument. The data were collected from two Islamic institutes in Aceh. The research was conducted by using documentation analysis. The result of the analysis demonstrated that the English writings by Acehnese students maintained the inductive style and the idea of the paragraph is circular. However, the use of markers is enough to be considered. The conclusion led to the rhetorical pattern of the Acehnese students which is in oriented style. Indeed, the implication of the finding showed that the students’ cross cultural rhetoric awareness toward English writing convention, especially in academic writing, is low

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“…The influence of culture in writing has been reported by researchers. Cahyono (2001) states that students who speak English as their foreign or second language tend to translate their L2 based on L1 form. This includes phrases and RP.…”

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