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C-Smile, COCA, and BNC: a focus on amplifiers and adjective collocations
No full textIn order to explicate a specific message from statements, amplifiers mostly collocate with particular lexical items referring to evaluation, judgment, or attitude. Using six types of amplifiers consisting of absolutely, completely, entirely, fully, totally, and utterly, the research intends to elicit kinds of adjective collocation that follow each of the amplifiers. Three different corpora of non-native and native speakers of English are used in order to see the common pattern of amplifiers and their collocations as well as to compare their use in different contexts and among users of English. The results show that the collocations are varied in the sense that each corpus provides a number of adjectives in which some of them are similar to the ones occurring in the other corpora and some others only occur in a particular corpus. Specific evaluations of amplifiers viewed from their
adjective collocations fall under three basic categories of positive, negative, and neutral values. By
investigating and comparing amplifiers and collocations used in non-native and native academic writings, the findings of the present study point to the fact that each amplifier constitutes specific evaluations
Examining research spaces in doctoral prospectuses
No full textAbstract: Genre analyses and contrastive rhetoric studies have dealt withquite a number of genres of writing. However, genre analysts and contrastiverhetoric researchers have not carried out adequate analyses of doctoral prospectuses.This paper will, subsequently, address this issue by analyzing agenre of texts of doctoral prospectuses. The analysis will be focused on thesub-genre of Background of the Study of the prospectuses. Limitations ofaccessibility, however, have led this study to only focus on analyzing fourteendoctoral prospectuses written in English by Indonesian students of EFLaccessible from the Graduate Program, State University of Malang, Indonesia.This situation suggests that the present study is preliminary. Preliminary,notwithstanding, the study will contribute to filling the gap of the underresearchedissue of doctoral studies in Indonesia, particularly, those pertinentto the area of ELT. The analysis shows a tendency that the texts of Backgroundof the Study do not show research spaces. Relevant to this, the articleprovides an interpretive explanation of the possible factors attributable tothis issue
Styles and Strategies of a Vietnamese and an Indonesian Student in Learning English
No full textThe present paper is a report of an investigation on the styles and strategies used by a Vietnamese and an Indonesian student in learning English. The subjects were a Vietnamese who was taking English bridging courses and an Indonesian formally taking ELICOS at Curtin University of Technology, W.A. The objective of the study was to find out what makes up the styles and strategies of the two subjects. The result of the study was projected to provide bases for ELT practices, particularly, regarding the styles and strategies of Asian ESL/EFL learners, in general, and Vietnamese and Indonesian students, in particula
A Critical Moment in The Teaching Profession: A Discourse of Tensions
No full textThis article presents some interpretive understanding of a critical moment in my teaching profession. Different from the widely conducted Classroom Action Research (CAR) which tends to be focused on the very practice of teaching-learning activities in the classroom, the article refers to post-activity evaluative comments from students as data to start the discussion. The students giving the evaluative comments were participants of my course units of Speaking I and Discourse Analysis, Undergraduate Program, English Department, Faculty of Letters, State University of Malang, Indonesia. In the light of Ortega's concept about the "exuberances and deficiencies" of utterances and the notion of "the said and the unsaid" of discourse, the article interpretively assesses the tensions instead of unidirectional-deterministic understanding of the seemingly-simple-yet-complex teaching-learning activities. The article also argues that students' evaluative feedback as discourse bears paradoxes, indeterminacy, and tentativeness. The corollary is that teachers need not be impulsive and, instead, need to be open to students' evaluative feedback, be it positive or negative
A Discourse Of Doctoral Qualifying Exam: A Self Observation And Reflection
No full textThis study, concern itself with a discourse of doctoral qualifying exam, an underresearched area of doctoral studies in the Indonesian context, concerns itself with a discourse of doctoral qualifying exam. The data for this study were drawn from naturalistic observations taking place during the doctoral ventures of the present researcher. Another methodological characteristic of the present study is the employment of selective self-reflections on the personal narratives of the researcher. The researcher attended some ten doctoral qualifying exams at one graduate school of one of Indonesian universities. The study arrived at two conspicuous features characterizing doctoral qualifying exams. Results of some comparative observations taking place in Thailand, Australia, and the United Sates are also presented to help clarify the characterization of the doctoral qualifying exams in the Indonesian university. Some recommendations for future research concerning doctoral studies will conclude the articl
House-made Writing Style Guide: Reflecting on the Practice Around Academic Text Writing in an Indonesian University Context
No full textEXAMINING RESEARCH SPACES IN DOCTORAL PROSPECTUSES
No full textAbstract: Genre analyses and contrastive rhetoric studies have dealt with quite a number of genres of writing. However, genre analysts and contrastive rhetoric researchers have not carried out adequate analyses of doctoral prospectuses. This paper will, subsequently, address this issue by analyzing a genre of texts of doctoral prospectuses. The analysis will be focused on the sub-genre of “Background of the Study†of the prospectuses. Limitations of accessibility, however, have led this study to only focus on analyzing fourteen doctoral prospectuses written in English by Indonesian students of EFL accessible from the Graduate Program, State University of Malang, Indonesia. This situation suggests that the present study is preliminary. Preliminary, notwithstanding, the study will contribute to filling the gap of the under-researched issue of doctoral studies in Indonesia, particularly, those pertinent to the area of ELT. The analysis shows a tendency that the texts of Background of the Study do not show research spaces. Relevant to this, the article provides an interpretive explanation of the possible factors attributable to this issue
CURRICULUM VITAE: A DISCOURSE OF CELEBRATION WITH NARCISSISTIC ALLUSIONS
Full text linkThe present study, a part of a larger project, deals with the under-researched (sub) genre of curriculum vitae (CV) of theses written in English by Indonesian students of English as a foreign language (EFL). The corpus was composed of CV of 40 theses obtainable from the Graduate Library, Graduate Program, Universitas Negeri Malang (State University of Malang), Indonesia. In a categorical structure, the CVs exhibit four main issues: personal information about age and familial origin, academic information pertaining to educational backgrounds, work information, and another piece of personal information, i.e., family. Central to the findings is that the CVs allude to the notion of celebration with narcissistic expressions
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