TESOL conference abstracts: discrepancies between potential writers‘ knowledge and actual composition

The ability to write a successful conference abstract seems to be one barrier preventing new researchers from disseminating their research work in their particular disciplinary community. However, very few studies on how conference abstracts are structured have been conducted in order to help such...

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Main Authors:	Nguyen Thi Thuy Loan, Li, Qian, Issra Pramoolsook, Nguyen Duy Linh
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Language:	English
Published:	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2014
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7746/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7746/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7746/1/6895-18874-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-77462016-12-14T06:45:03Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7746/ TESOL conference abstracts: discrepancies between potential writers‘ knowledge and actual composition Nguyen Thi Thuy Loan, Li, Qian Issra Pramoolsook, Nguyen Duy Linh, The ability to write a successful conference abstract seems to be one barrier preventing new researchers from disseminating their research work in their particular disciplinary community. However, very few studies on how conference abstracts are structured have been conducted in order to help such novice researchers. This study, thus, aims to examine the rhetorical structure of conference abstracts in two TESOL conferences in Asia with the purpose of informing a particular group of new researchers in Asian settings about the actual practice of writing this particular genre. The findings from the open-ended questions and the move analysis of 137 abstracts indicated that there was a mismatch between these potential conference abstract writers’ knowledge and the actual composition of these conference abstracts. Besides the rhetorical structures of conference abstracts, this paper also provided some pedagogical suggestions on dealing with this mismatch. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7746/1/6895-18874-1-PB.pdf Nguyen Thi Thuy Loan, and Li, Qian and Issra Pramoolsook, and Nguyen Duy Linh, (2014) TESOL conference abstracts: discrepancies between potential writers‘ knowledge and actual composition. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 20 (3). pp. 161-176. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournals.ukm.my/3l/index
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description	The ability to write a successful conference abstract seems to be one barrier preventing new researchers from disseminating their research work in their particular disciplinary community. However, very few studies on how conference abstracts are structured have been conducted in order to help such novice researchers. This study, thus, aims to examine the rhetorical structure of conference abstracts in two TESOL conferences in Asia with the purpose of informing a particular group of new researchers in Asian settings about the actual practice of writing this particular genre. The findings from the open-ended questions and the move analysis of 137 abstracts indicated that there was a mismatch between these potential conference abstract writers’ knowledge and the actual composition of these conference abstracts. Besides the rhetorical structures of conference abstracts, this paper also provided some pedagogical suggestions on dealing with this mismatch.
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author	Nguyen Thi Thuy Loan, Li, Qian Issra Pramoolsook, Nguyen Duy Linh,
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author_facet	Nguyen Thi Thuy Loan, Li, Qian Issra Pramoolsook, Nguyen Duy Linh,
author_sort	Nguyen Thi Thuy Loan,
title	TESOL conference abstracts: discrepancies between potential writers‘ knowledge and actual composition
title_short	TESOL conference abstracts: discrepancies between potential writers‘ knowledge and actual composition
title_full	TESOL conference abstracts: discrepancies between potential writers‘ knowledge and actual composition
title_fullStr	TESOL conference abstracts: discrepancies between potential writers‘ knowledge and actual composition
title_full_unstemmed	TESOL conference abstracts: discrepancies between potential writers‘ knowledge and actual composition
title_sort	tesol conference abstracts: discrepancies between potential writers‘ knowledge and actual composition
publisher	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate	2014
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7746/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7746/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7746/1/6895-18874-1-PB.pdf
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TESOL conference abstracts: discrepancies between potential writers‘ knowledge and actual composition

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