SFL-BASED ANALYSIS OF THEMATIC PROGRESSION OF ENGLISH GRADUATE PERSONAL STATEMENTS

LLT Journal A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Pub Date : 2023-10-06 DOI:10.24071/llt.v26i2.6579

Ghada Haji

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The main problem faced by graduate and undergraduate students in writing their university application letters includes the difficulties of producing a coherent and cohesive text that can convince the evaluators of their suitability to the target program. The present study was conducted principally to investigate the thematic progression patterns realized in students’ statements (henceforth PSs), for their considerable role in shaping the overall structure of the text and unfolding the writer’s identity. The corpus consists of 20 PSs written by graduate English students applying for a Master's in Sociology in Western institutions. Eggin’s (2004) framework of Theme and Rheme was applied to analyze the thematic progression patterns (TPP) observed and find out the dominant pattern revealed from the students’ texts. The findings of the analysis indicated the presence of two main thematic progression patterns, namely the Reiteration pattern and Zigzag pattern, with the total absence of the Multiple theme pattern. The obtained results of this work may offer valuable insights for academic writing instructions and material developers.

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基于外语的英语毕业生个人陈述句主位推进分析

研究生和本科生在写大学申请信时面临的主要问题包括难以写出连贯和有凝聚力的文本，从而使评估人员相信他们适合目标项目。本研究的主要目的是探讨在学生陈述(以下简称ps)中实现的主位推进模式，因为它们在塑造文本的整体结构和展现作者身份方面发挥了重要作用。该语料库包括20篇由申请西方机构社会学硕士学位的英语研究生撰写的论文。运用Eggin(2004)的主位和述位框架，对观察到的主位进行模式(TPP)进行分析，找出学生语篇中所揭示的主位进行模式。分析结果表明，主位推进模式主要有两种，即重复模式和之字形模式，而多主位推进模式则完全不存在。这项工作所获得的结果可能为学术写作指导和材料开发人员提供有价值的见解。

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