Ibérica Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.17398/2340-2784.47.175

Hassan Nejadghanbar, Guangwei Hu, Matin Mohammadi

{"title":"Exploring Iranian ESP teachers’ language-related critical incidents","authors":"Hassan Nejadghanbar, Guangwei Hu, Matin Mohammadi","doi":"10.17398/2340-2784.47.175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17398/2340-2784.47.175","url":null,"abstract":"English for specific purposes (ESP) practitioners who are content experts experience different types of critical incident (CI). Although CIs can influence the success or failure of ESP courses and impact on ESP practitioners’ professional lives significantly, they have received only scanty attention in the ESP literature. This study investigates language-related CIs experienced by ESP instructors who are content experts. Twenty-seven CIs were identified via narrative frames (n = 17) and interviews with Iranian ESP instructors (n = 10). Of them, the ten language-related CIs were analyzed in terms of their nature, the strategies and tactics that the ESP practitioners utilized to tackle them, and the lessons that they learned from them. The language-related CIs centered on pronunciation difficulty, weak grammar, insufficient skills in teaching reading and writing, low competence in language testing, and unfamiliarity with research on academic genres. In their response to the CIs, the ESP instructors deployed three types of coping strategy: admitting ignorance, avoidance, and risk-taking. They utilized different tactics to manage their CIs and reported different lessons learned. These findings have important implications for ESP teachers’ professional development and ESP teacher education.","PeriodicalId":503127,"journal":{"name":"Ibérica","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141383179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Making requests at work: An examination of phrase frames in workplace email communication 在工作中提出请求：研究工作场所电子邮件通信中的用语框架

Ibérica Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.17398/2340-2784.47.67

Detong Xia, Matt Kessler, Yudi Chen, Hye Pae

{"title":"Making requests at work: An examination of phrase frames in workplace email communication","authors":"Detong Xia, Matt Kessler, Yudi Chen, Hye Pae","doi":"10.17398/2340-2784.47.67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17398/2340-2784.47.67","url":null,"abstract":"As a method of business communication, emails play an essential role in establishing relationships and support systems among colleagues, partners, and sponsors to achieve business goals. Research has suggested that nonnative speakers of English and novice writers face challenges when composing professional email requests for business purposes. Previous studies have underscored the importance of phrase frames (p-frames), which are recurring multi-word sequences with a variable slot, to fulfill rhetorical functions in academic discourse. However, little research has explored how p-frames are used for written communications in business workplace contexts. This study investigated five-word p-frames used for rhetorical moves in business email requests. Using 1,148 authentic request emails extracted from the Avocado Research Email Collection corpus, we analyzed the distribution and linguistic characteristics of p-frames across five rhetorical moves. Results showed that p-frames were unevenly distributed across the rhetorical moves in business request emails. Two moves, making the inquiry and closing, showed the highest degree of formulaicity. P-frames were used in a variety of messages to soften demands and express politeness. This study has pedagogical implications for teaching English for business purposes to both L2 learners and novice writers.","PeriodicalId":503127,"journal":{"name":"Ibérica","volume":"52 52","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141383963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Communication for Specific Purposes as translingual 特定目的的跨语言交流

Ibérica Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.17398/10.17398/2340-2784.47.15

Suresh Canagarajah

{"title":"Communication for Specific Purposes as translingual","authors":"Suresh Canagarajah","doi":"10.17398/10.17398/2340-2784.47.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17398/10.17398/2340-2784.47.15","url":null,"abstract":"Recent theoretical developments suggest that meaning making involves the relationality of human and nonhuman agents and diverse semiotic resources working together. “Translingual” is an inclusive term to refer to how different languages and modalities work together in communication. I draw from enregisterment perspectives in linguistic anthropology to demonstrate how a corpus of semiotic features becomes sedimented to identify specialized communicative activities. I illustrate from the Research Group Meeting of international STEM scholars in a midwestern American university. Despite their variable grammatical proficiency in English, the international scholars communicate effectively because they draw from a translingual assemblage that is diversified, and collaborate for joint outcomes adopting reciprocal communicative strategies. Outcomes are not defined by the grammatical mastery of individual speakers, but how participants collaborate through embodied translingual semiotic resources in their setting and community, facilitated by suitable ethical dispositions. The pedagogical alternative proposed will focus on cultivating the dispositions to negotiate translingual repertoires, material ecologies, and social networks for more inclusive outcomes in communication for specific purposes.","PeriodicalId":503127,"journal":{"name":"Ibérica","volume":"8 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141383493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Are we witnessing the death of dictionaries? 我们是否正在见证字典的消亡？

Ibérica Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.17398/2340-2784.47.7

Hilary Nesi

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Individual differences and non-English-majors’ engagement in business English language classrooms in the Chinese university context 中国大学商务英语课堂中的个体差异和非英语专业学生的参与度

Ibérica Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.17398/2340-2784.47.149

Qing Xie

{"title":"Individual differences and non-English-majors’ engagement in business English language classrooms in the Chinese university context","authors":"Qing Xie","doi":"10.17398/2340-2784.47.149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17398/2340-2784.47.149","url":null,"abstract":"This study reports an investigative study of individual differences in personality, motivation, challenges, learning styles and strategies, needs and 55 non-English-majors’ engagement in business English language classrooms in a Chinese university, using two-stage surveys. The study finds positive affective factors in personality and motivation, though participants experienced challenges in learning business English vocabulary and improving English skills. Participants used different learning strategies and styles, and required varied helpful strategies for enhancing business English teaching and learning. Participants had high levels of cognitive engagement, behavioral engagement, emotional engagement, enjoyment, focus, and task familiarity in business English learning. Though participants still encountered problems, they reported learning gains in business English vocabulary expansion, improvement in business writing, workplace communication, business knowledge and culture, business reading, problem solving, listening, interest in English and critical thinking skills. This study is providing empirical evidence of individual differences with China’s non-English-major learners in business English learning and how the individual differences relate with engagement and learning outcomes. The study also implies for practice that business English teachers should adapt their teaching approach and strategies to accommodate to individual differences.","PeriodicalId":503127,"journal":{"name":"Ibérica","volume":"46 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141384528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Coherence features of published research articles by Japanese authors: Culture-specific features and their acceptability 日本作者发表的研究文章的连贯性特征：文化特征及其可接受性

Ibérica Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.17398/2340-2784.47.301

Tomoyuki Kawase

{"title":"Coherence features of published research articles by Japanese authors: Culture-specific features and their acceptability","authors":"Tomoyuki Kawase","doi":"10.17398/2340-2784.47.301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17398/2340-2784.47.301","url":null,"abstract":"Previous studies have demonstrated that research articles by non-native English-speaking researchers often contain features discordant with rhetorical conventions of English academic writing. It has also been revealed that creation of such non-standard elements may be related to the influence of the writers’ first language writing culture. Some have argued that these cultural rhetorical features ought to be viewed as acceptable because they are part of published content that passed the rigorous examinations. Others have reported findings suggesting that these cultural yet non-standard features constitute potential writing problems. To further explore this topic, the present study examines coherence features of the discussion section of research articles (RAs) produced in English and Japanese by Japanese-speaking authors. Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) is used for the analysis of the selected texts in terms of coherence conventions of English expository or argumentative prose. The results are then compared with previous findings of coherence breaks created by student writers. The analysis shows that both English and Japanese RAs contain features discordant with coherence conventions described by RST. Close examinations show that the most prominent non-standard features in these RAs are closely comparable to those of coherence breaks in students’ writings reported by previous studies. ","PeriodicalId":503127,"journal":{"name":"Ibérica","volume":"70 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141382597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500-1820. Sociocultural Contexts of Production and Use, edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Turo Hiltunen, Jeremy J. Smith & Carla Suhr 英语医学写作中的体裁，1500-1820 年。生产和使用的社会文化背景》，Irma Taavitsainen、Turo Hiltunen、Jeremy J. Smith 和 Carla Suhr 编辑

Ibérica Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.17398/2340-2784.47.323

Kai Zhao, Yansheng Mao

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Digital Genres in Academic Knowledge Production and Communication, by María José Luzón and Carmen Pérez-Llantada 学术知识生产与传播中的数字流派》，María José Luzón 和 Carmen Pérez-Llantada 著

Ibérica Pub Date : 2023-12-17 DOI: 10.17398//2340-2784.46.351

Joanna Zou

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Verbal and visual resources in graphical abstracts: Analyzing patterns of knowledge presentation in digital genres 图形摘要中的语言和视觉资源：分析数字文体中的知识呈现模式

Ibérica Pub Date : 2023-12-17 DOI: 10.17398/2340-2784.46.129

Yuanyuan Ma, Kevin Jiang

{"title":"Verbal and visual resources in graphical abstracts: Analyzing patterns of knowledge presentation in digital genres","authors":"Yuanyuan Ma, Kevin Jiang","doi":"10.17398/2340-2784.46.129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17398/2340-2784.46.129","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, open science communication is facilitated with the affordance of multimodal semiotic resources. Against this backdrop, graphical abstracts have emerged as a digitally mediated genre and have become an important means of knowledge communication in academic settings. While its interactive visual designs have been discussed in the literature, the rhetorical patterns of verbal and visual resources used in this genre warrant more empirical investigation. Therefore, based on a corpus of 90 graphical abstracts from journals in biology, chemistry and engineering, this study explores the organizational use of verbal and visual resources to mediate knowledge presentation. Five moves were identified in the textual components of the graphical abstract: reference to visuals, research background, report of results, interpretation of results, and implications or applications of the research. Furthermore, we examined what and how contents are visualized in the graphical abstracts. We found that the most visually displayed contents are the results and the overview of research, and that the duplication of pictures in the full article is a dominant source of the graphical abstracts. Additionally, the most commonly used layout patterns in the graphical abstracts are narratives or ‘evolutions’.","PeriodicalId":503127,"journal":{"name":"Ibérica","volume":"46 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139176334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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‘Great work folks!’: establishing interpersonal communication in transparent peer reviews of research articles 干得好，伙计们！"：在研究文章的透明同行评审中建立人际交流

Ibérica Pub Date : 2023-12-15 DOI: 10.17398/2340-2784.46.69

Derya Sönmez, Erdem Akbaş

{"title":"‘Great work folks!’: establishing interpersonal communication in transparent peer reviews of research articles","authors":"Derya Sönmez, Erdem Akbaş","doi":"10.17398/2340-2784.46.69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17398/2340-2784.46.69","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we examine how referees establish interpersonal relationships by mitigating criticism and expressing compliments as a realization of politeness strategies through the analysis of a specific corpus of transparent peer review reports (TPRs) with 220 reports totaling approximately 200,000 words. For the analysis, employing a framework drawn primarily on Brown and Levinson’s (1987) politeness strategies and following a detailed review of the literature, we coded all occurrences of politeness strategies using UAM Corpus Tool 3.3x (O’Donnell, 2021). Conducting intercoder/intracoder reliability tests, we identified and interpreted a variety of politeness strategies at the sentence and discourse levels, which were used for mitigating criticism and expressing compliments. Our results suggest that reviewers resorted to a variety of politeness strategies, predominantly negative politeness strategies, to mitigate their criticism directed at the authors of manuscripts. This is significant especially in the light of earlier studies where reviewer reports appeared to include some blunt/hurtful comments due partly to the anonymity of the reviewing process. Rather than focusing on just communicating criticism or a required change, reviewers were found to have cared about politeness and seemed to achieve interpersonal communication goals in TPRs by means of favoring an egalitarian approach rather than an authoritative one, supporting Gosden’s (2003) argument on the interpersonal aspect of reviewing discourse. This research contributes to our understanding of how criticism in TPRs can be conveyed without imposing, leading to encouraging, constructive and polite reports in English as part of science communication, especially when the review reports are publicly available.","PeriodicalId":503127,"journal":{"name":"Ibérica","volume":"192 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139177524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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