Cultural Differences in the Organization of Research Article Introductions from the Field of Educational Psychology _ English and Chinese.pdf
电子书
This paper investigates the rhetorical organization of the introduction sections of English
and Chinese research articles in the field of educational psychology. The study reported in
this paper adopts Swales’s (1990, 2004) framework of move analysis. In general, the
findings of the present study reveal that there are similarities and differences between
English and Chinese research article introductions in terms of the employment of moves
and steps. It is suggested that the rhetorical differences reflect some of the distinctive
characteristics of the two different cultures, English and Chinese. The findings of the
present study have both theoretical and pedagogical implications.
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