Determining the L2 academic writing development stage: a corpus-based research on doctoral dissertations

IF 1.4 2区文学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Iral-International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching Pub Date : 2023-08-30 DOI:10.1515/iral-2023-0028

Muhammad Ahmad, M. A. Mahmood, A. R. Siddique

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Abstract This corpus-based research investigates features representing different stages of development in Pakistani academic writing (AW) to determine the stage of Pakistani AW in physical and social sciences. Corpus for this research comprises texts from 80 doctoral dissertations and is analyzed through AntConc after tagging with Multidimensional Analysis Tagger (MAT) and TagAnt. Results show Pakistani AW in both disciplines frequently comprising nouns as pre-modifiers that represent Stage-3. These are lower level features used by the writers developing towards higher levels. Therefore, Pakistani advanced level AW in physical and social sciences is positioned at Stage-3. This suggests that Pakistani writers in these disciplines are operating below the expected developmental level specifically Stage-5. These results are found to oppose the general hypothesis i.e. L2 (English as a second language) academic writers frequently use phrasal features at the advanced level. Consequently, Pakistani AW is concluded to be below the required level of language development.

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第二语言学术写作发展阶段的确定:基于语料库的博士论文研究

本研究以语料库为基础，考察了巴基斯坦学术写作不同发展阶段的特征，以确定巴基斯坦学术写作在自然科学和社会科学领域所处的阶段。本研究的语料库包括80篇博士论文文本，在使用多维分析标记器(MAT)和TagAnt进行标记后，通过AntConc进行分析。结果表明，巴基斯坦的AW在这两个学科中经常包括名词作为代表阶段3的前置修饰语。这些是编写人员在开发高级别的过程中使用的较低级别的功能。因此，巴基斯坦在物理和社会科学方面的高级水平处于第三阶段。这表明这些学科的巴基斯坦作家低于预期的发展水平，特别是第5阶段。这些结果被发现与一般假设相反，即L2(英语作为第二语言)学术作家经常使用高级水平的短语特征。因此，巴基斯坦AW被认为低于所需的语言发展水平。

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