A STUDY OF BHATIA’S MOVES AND LINGUISTIC FEATURES IN ENGLISH ABSTRACTS OF TCI-2 RESEARCH ARTICLES ON INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION
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Writing research article (RA) abstracts in English is a frightful responsibility for nonnative researchers. It also situates much difficulty on them when they have to publish the papers in English. The objectives of this study were to identify Bhatia’s (1993) four moves of Purpose, Method, Result, Conclusion in English Abstracts of Thai-Journal Citation Index Tier 2 (TCI-2) research articles on Industrial Education (IE), and to investigate the linguistic features (Tenses, Voice, and That-complement) written inside RA abstracts based on the same corpus. The data consisted of thirty English RA abstracts in Industrial Education published under the list of Thai-Journal Citation Index Tier 2 (TCI-2) journals during 2018-2020 by the university instructors across Thailand. The four-move framework was adopted to analyze 30 abstracts written by Thai researchers on Industrial Education field in this study. The results demonstrated that Result (R) was only the obligatory move in the corpus, whereas, Purpose (P) and Method (M) moves were conventional. Regarding linguistic features of the moves, Past tense in the Active voice form was the preferred choice of selection by the researchers to describe Purpose, Method, and Result moves within the English abstracts of the corpus. Present tense, and Passive voice were infrequently used, but there was no evidence of Perfect tense used in the present study. That-complement clauses were the outstanding form in the Result move of the abstracts when compared to others. These findings indicate the need for a further development on English RA abstracts training courses in academic writing with the aim to increase writers’ understanding of a standardized structure and English RA abstracts linguistic features linked to their abstract writing.
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