Rhetorical structure of introduction chapters written by novice Vietnamese TESOL postgraduates

It is generally agreed that writing a thesis is a challenging task for both native and non-native English speaking students. Despite a considerable number of studies on this specific genre elsewhere, there is a scarcity of work in Vietnam to help TESOL students to write a thesis. Furthermore, the In...

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Main Authors:	Loan Thi Thuy Nguyen, Issra Pramoolsook
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2014
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7066/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7066/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7066/1/4050-14272-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-70662016-12-14T06:43:00Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7066/ Rhetorical structure of introduction chapters written by novice Vietnamese TESOL postgraduates Loan Thi Thuy Nguyen, Issra Pramoolsook, It is generally agreed that writing a thesis is a challenging task for both native and non-native English speaking students. Despite a considerable number of studies on this specific genre elsewhere, there is a scarcity of work in Vietnam to help TESOL students to write a thesis. Furthermore, the Introduction is considered one of two most difficult chapters to write. This paper, therefore, presents a study on the rhetorical structure of Introduction chapters of twelve M.A. theses from the three universities in the South of Vietnam. Employing the modified CARS’ model by Bunton (2002), the results showed that three moves and 15 steps were employed by this group of non-native English writers despite the fact that they had little or no formal instruction on how to write this genre. Additionally, a new step was also identified in this corpus. These findings reflect Vietnamese students’ ability to conform to the norms and to adapt the norms to suit cultural expectations. This paper proposes practical implications for teaching this particular group of novice writers in Vietnam as well as in settings with similar cultural values on how to compose the Introduction section. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7066/1/4050-14272-1-PB.pdf Loan Thi Thuy Nguyen, and Issra Pramoolsook, (2014) Rhetorical structure of introduction chapters written by novice Vietnamese TESOL postgraduates. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 20 (1). pp. 61-74. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournals.ukm.my/3l/index
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description	It is generally agreed that writing a thesis is a challenging task for both native and non-native English speaking students. Despite a considerable number of studies on this specific genre elsewhere, there is a scarcity of work in Vietnam to help TESOL students to write a thesis. Furthermore, the Introduction is considered one of two most difficult chapters to write. This paper, therefore, presents a study on the rhetorical structure of Introduction chapters of twelve M.A. theses from the three universities in the South of Vietnam. Employing the modified CARS’ model by Bunton (2002), the results showed that three moves and 15 steps were employed by this group of non-native English writers despite the fact that they had little or no formal instruction on how to write this genre. Additionally, a new step was also identified in this corpus. These findings reflect Vietnamese students’ ability to conform to the norms and to adapt the norms to suit cultural expectations. This paper proposes practical implications for teaching this particular group of novice writers in Vietnam as well as in settings with similar cultural values on how to compose the Introduction section.
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title	Rhetorical structure of introduction chapters written by novice Vietnamese TESOL postgraduates
title_short	Rhetorical structure of introduction chapters written by novice Vietnamese TESOL postgraduates
title_full	Rhetorical structure of introduction chapters written by novice Vietnamese TESOL postgraduates
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title_sort	rhetorical structure of introduction chapters written by novice vietnamese tesol postgraduates
publisher	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
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url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7066/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7066/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7066/1/4050-14272-1-PB.pdf
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Rhetorical structure of introduction chapters written by novice Vietnamese TESOL postgraduates

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