خلاصة:
Academic writing is one of the important skills in higher education and as a social phenomenon can be investigated for ideological manipulations. This study tries to unveil the westernized hegemonic discourse such as legitimation patterns in academic discourse of Iranian applied linguists in three major research paradigms. To this end, five-point classification of van Leeuwen’s (2008) authorization’s category was used as our analytic framework. The published articles of Iranian academic-scholarly journals were critically analyzed for the observed frequencies of the mentioned classifications and Chi-square tests were used to statistically investigate the associations between authorization’s patterns and research paradigms. The results revealed statistically significant associations between quantitative and qualitative research methods on one hand and between qualitative and mixed-methods on the other hand. Accordingly, the results of this study may shed some lights on the domination of positivist’s ideology in academic writing of the applied linguists in Iran. In this respect, the policy makers in the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology, along with editorial boards of Iranian journals in the field of applied linguistics, may change the globalized and westernized view of education into more locally oriented approaches. Furthermore, professors and students may adopt more democratic views in their research and reporting studies.
ملخص الجهاز:
Domination of Positivism in Academic Writing of Iranian Applied Linguists: A Critical Corpus-based Approach Research Article Siavash Zokaeieh1 Amir Marzban*2 Mehrshad Ahmadian3 Received: 2020-05-03 | Revised (1): 2020-07-16 | Accepted: 2020-07-22 Abstract Academic writing is one of the important skills in higher education and as a social phenomenon can be investigated for ideological manipulations.
Research Question and Hypothesis Through critical approach toward globalized and ideological manipulation of discourse, this study seeks domination of scientific writing in relation to the research methodologies in the well-accredited local Iranian journals in the field of applied linguistics.
Therefore, we investigated those patterns be- tween quantitative and qualitative along with qualitative and mixed-methods designs: Are there statistically significant associations between adoptions of au- thorization’s patterns in different research paradigms in Iranian local journals?
The texts of academic articles published in local Iranian journals are critically analyzed to quantita- tively investigate the patterns of discourse in relation to their research meth- odologies.
Three Main Ideological Research Methods in Applied Linguistics {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} One of the main issues for appropriateness of a quantitative study is the sample size; however, in text and discourse analysis this point is secondary.
This indicates that the scientific writing with authorization’s patterns as a positiv- istic move is dominant in reporting research in the field of applied linguistics in Iran.
This finding indicated the domination of quantitative discourser based on the positivist ideology in the academic writing of Iranian scholars and practitioners.