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Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings / John M. Swales

01 Jan 1991-Vol. 1991, Iss: 1991, pp 1-99
About: The article was published on 1991-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 5640 citations till now.
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TL;DR: This paper investigated writer manifestation in three languages, English, French and Norwegian, and three disciplines, economics, linguistics and medicine, in order to see whether language or discipline is the most important variable governing the pattern of metatext in academic discourse.

299 citations

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TL;DR: This article conducted an interview study with the editors of 12 leading international journals in applied linguistics and English language teaching to find out how these editors viewed the issue of nonnative speakers publishing in their journals and to gain insight into how to enhance the chances of successful publication by NNSs.
Abstract: More and more nonnative speakers (NNSs) are seeking to publish in international journals devoted to English language teaching and applied linguistics. Strong anecdotal evidence and occasional references in the literature attest to the disadvantages NNSs encounter vis-a-vis their native speaker (NS) peers. This article presents the results of an interview study with the editors of 12 leading international journals in applied linguistics and English language teaching. The purpose was to find out how these editors viewed the issue of NNSs publishing in their journals and to gain insight into how to enhance the chances of successful publication by NNSs. The results of the interviews included a questioning of the concept of the term nonnative speaker, the overall attitudes of editors and reviewers to NNS contributions, problematic aspects of NNS contributions, and positive attributes of NNS contributors. Problematic aspects included surface errors, parochialism, absence of authorial voice, and nativized varieties of English. Positive attributes include awareness of cross-linguistic and cross-cultural issues, objectivity of outsider perspectives, an international perspective, a testing mechanism for the dominant theories of the centre, access to research sites and data where NSs would be intrusive, and the alerting of centre scholars to research undertaken on the periphery.

297 citations

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TL;DR: The authors argue for an activity-based theory of genre knowledge, drawing on empirical findings from case study research emphasizing "insider knowledge" and on structuration theory, activity-theoretic theory.
Abstract: This article argues for an activity-based theory of genre knowledge. Drawing on empirical findings from case study research emphasizing “insider knowledge” and on structuration theory, activity the...

296 citations

01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this article, the problems in teaching tenses to Turkish students at university level in Turkey have been studied and most frequently occurred errors have been listed and they have been analyzed in detail, which revealed that the reasons for these errors mostly derive from mother tongue interference and lack of adequate linguistic background.
Abstract: This study focuses on the problems in teaching tenses to Turkish students at university level in Turkey. Some of the problematic and confusing tenses such as Past Simple and Present Perfect Tense, Present Continuous and Present Simple, Past Simple and Past Continuous Tense Teaching grammar have been handled throughout this study with the data obtained from the written exams of the learners. Most frequently occurred errors have been listed and they have been analyzed in detail. The findings reveal that the reasons for these errors mostly derive from mother tongue interference and lack of adequate linguistic background. The other component of this article is to offer remedial teaching activities for foreign language learners to compensate the shortcomings.

293 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of research article abstracts from linguistics journals from two related angles: rhetorical organisation and thematic structure is reported. But the authors focus on two major types of rhetorical organisation, the IMRD type and the CARS type.

290 citations