خلاصة:
The study investigated whether there was any significant generic difference between the Research Questions (RQs) and Method sections of applied linguistics research articles (RAs) published in international and local Iranian journals. Two hundred applied linguistics RAs (100 from each group) were selected from 5 SSCI-indexed international journals and 5 Iranian Scientific-Research (Elmi-Pazhouheshi) ISC-indexed journals. Having analyzed the Introduction and Method sections based on Swales’ (2004) CARS model and Lim’s (2006) model, respectively, we found there were no significant differences in the frequency of occurrence of RQs in the Introduction sections, on the one hand, and between the Method sections of both groups of RAs, on the other. However, significant differences were found in the frequency of occurrence of certain moves and steps in both sections. Moreover, the findings of an expert-viewed validated questionnaire indicated that the RQs were of paramount importance to the authors of both groups of RAs.
ملخص الجهاز:
A Comparative Study of Rhetorical Moves Adopted in Research Questions and Method Sections of Applied Linguistics Research Articles1 Hassan Soodmand Afshar2 & Azam Ranjbar3 Received: 07/05/2016 Accepted: 07/10/2016 Abstract The study investigated whether there was any significant generic difference between the Research Questions (RQs) and Method sections of applied linguistics research articles (RAs) published in international and local Iranian journals.
4. Significance of the Study and Statement of the Problem The purpose of the current study was to investigate the similarities and/or differences of RQs (as the second step of Move 3 in the CARS model for analyzing the rhetorical moves of the Introduction sections) as well as the Method sections in applied linguistics RAs published between 2009 and 2015 in Thompson Reuters- indexed SSCI international journals and those published between 2009 and 2015 in Scientific-Research ISC-indexed local Iranian journals (i.
56 1 10 As Table 2 indicates, there was no statistically significant difference in the frequency of occurrence of the RQs in the Introduction sections of the local and international applied linguistics RAs. The second research question of the study set out to explore the rhetorical moves used in formulating the RQs in applied linguistics RAs published in both groups of journals.
To answer the last research question as to whether there was any significant difference in the frequency of occurrence of the moves used in the Method sections of the local and international applied linguistics RAs, a chi-square analysis was run, the results of which are shown in Table 7: Table 7.