Finite Complement Clauses in Disciplinary Research Articles Authored by Filipino Academic Writers

rEFLections Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI:10.61508/refl.v31i1.271944

Hjalmar Punla Hernandez

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Finite complement clauses (FCCs) are an understudied syntactic structure of L2 advanced academic writing. The present study cross-investigated FCCs in qualitative (QUALI) and quantitative (QUANTI) research articles written by Filipino academic writers (FAWs) in Applied Linguistics (APPLING), Communication (COMM), and Measurement and Evaluation (MEEV). Specifically, it determined the FCCs with the most occurrences across five disciplinary research article sub-registers and identified whether these FCCs differ significantly in terms of frequencies of use. With Hernandez’s (2021) framework adapted from Biber and Gray’s (2016) study, this research analyzed five FCCs in 42 disciplinary research articles. Major results revealed that verb-controlled that-clauses (with 33.69 as normalized frequency count) outnumbered other FCCs in research article sub-registers across disciplines. They were more recurrent in QUALI and QUANTI APPLING research articles (7.91 and 7.54, respectively) and QUANTI and QUALI COMM research articles (7.34 and 6.96, respectively) than in QUANTI MEEV research articles (3.94). In addition, a significant difference exists between them and other FCCs at the p<.05 level in terms of frequencies of use. In view of these findings, it can be concluded that verb-controlled that-clauses are the most useful FCCs in APPLING, COMM, and MEEV research articles. Likewise, FAWs across the three disciplines write more informally as signposted by their repeated use of that complementizer with these FCCs controlled by verbs. The study draws its implications for academic writing instruction.

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菲律宾学术作家撰写的学科研究文章中的有限补语句子

有限补语从句（FCCs）是一种未被充分研究的 L2 高级学术写作句法结构。本研究交叉调查了菲律宾学术写作者（FAWs）在应用语言学（APPLING）、传播学（COMM）和测量与评价（MEEV）领域撰写的定性（QUALI）和定量（QUANTI）研究文章中的 FCCs。具体而言，该研究确定了在五个学科研究文章子目录中出现次数最多的 FCC，并确定了这些 FCC 在使用频率方面是否存在显著差异。本研究采用 Hernandez（2021 年）从 Biber 和 Gray（2016 年）的研究中改编而来的框架，分析了 42 篇学科研究文章中的五种 FCC。主要结果显示，在不同学科的研究文章分册中，动词控制的that-clauses（归一化频数为33.69）超过了其他FCCs。与 QUANTI MEEV 研究文章（3.94）相比，它们在 QUALI 和 QUANTI APPLING 研究文章（分别为 7.91 和 7.54）以及 QUANTI 和 QUALI COMM 研究文章（分别为 7.34 和 6.96）中出现的频率更高。此外，在使用频率方面，它们与其他 FCCs 之间也存在明显差异，P<.05。鉴于这些发现，可以得出结论：在 APPLING、COMM 和 MEEV 研究文章中，动词控制的 that-clauses 是最有用的 FCC。同样，这三个学科的女性外语教师在写作时更注重非正式性，这体现在他们在使用这些由动词控制的 FCC 时反复使用 that 补语。本研究总结了其对学术写作教学的启示。

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