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Scripta Manent, Dec 30, 2018
Znanstveniki iz neanglofonih okolij, ki si prizadevajo objaviti rezultate svojih raziskav v vodil... more Znanstveniki iz neanglofonih okolij, ki si prizadevajo objaviti rezultate svojih raziskav v vodilnih mednarodnih znanstvenih revijah, so v primerjavi z rojstnimi govorci angleškega jezika v podrejenem položaju. Njihove težave izhajajo iz zapletenega skupka okoliščin in so bile pogosto opažene tudi na področjih poučevanja angleščine za študijske namene in angleščine za namene znanstvenega objavljanja.
Pragmatics & beyond, Dec 4, 2019
Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice, 2018
Entering the world of academic writing can be a troublesome experience for young researchers, esp... more Entering the world of academic writing can be a troublesome experience for young researchers, especially for those writing in ESL. In addition to mastering the specific language of their disciplinary community, they also have to adopt an array of metadiscourse features which help them organize their writing and position themselves towards their content and their readers. Research on the use of metadiscourse in academic writing has indicated that ESL writers generally do not use metadiscourse elements to the same extent and in the same way as native English speakers. The paper will focus on the process of developing the awareness of metadiscourse features with young researchers and will attempt to gain an insight into how they adopt and apply these linguistic elements in their writing. It is based on a case study with three young researchers from the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad, Serbia, whose research articles will be analyzed in relation to the correct usage of metadiscourse as well as its potential absence, using Hyland's framework. In the subsequent analysis, a questionnaire and interviews will be used to determine the degree of young authors' awareness of their use of metadiscourse and their approach to applying it in their writing. The triangulation between the corpus analysis and the questionnaire and interview data will try to address the issues of the reasons for using specific markers, the importance they attach to the use of metadiscourse in relation to the content of the research articles, and the methods of learning them, in order to unfold the correlation of beginnings of academic writing and the use of metadiscourse. It is hoped that the results of the analysis can be applied in teaching academic writing.
As English has become the dominant language of academic communication, researchers around the wor... more As English has become the dominant language of academic communication, researchers around the world face an increased pressure to publish their results in English. Non-Anglophone writers generally face problems caused by differences in rhetorical or argumentative styles and inadequate understanding of academic writing and discipline-specific standards and requirements. This paper seeks to explore how writers from Serbia approach the demanding task of writing research articles in English. Applying a qualitative research design based on interviews conducted with a selected group of researchers and scholars from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, this small-scale study analyses the socio-organizational, linguistic and strategic aspects of this process. Two research questions are addressed: what are the most common difficulties perceived by the researchers and what strategies are most often employed to solve the problems of writing research articles in English. The results are interpre...
Scripta Manent, Dec 30, 2018
Znanstveniki iz neanglofonih okolij, ki si prizadevajo objaviti rezultate svojih raziskav v vodil... more Znanstveniki iz neanglofonih okolij, ki si prizadevajo objaviti rezultate svojih raziskav v vodilnih mednarodnih znanstvenih revijah, so v primerjavi z rojstnimi govorci angleškega jezika v podrejenem položaju. Njihove težave izhajajo iz zapletenega skupka okoliščin in so bile pogosto opažene tudi na področjih poučevanja angleščine za študijske namene in angleščine za namene znanstvenega objavljanja.
Pragmatics & beyond, Dec 4, 2019
Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice, 2018
Entering the world of academic writing can be a troublesome experience for young researchers, esp... more Entering the world of academic writing can be a troublesome experience for young researchers, especially for those writing in ESL. In addition to mastering the specific language of their disciplinary community, they also have to adopt an array of metadiscourse features which help them organize their writing and position themselves towards their content and their readers. Research on the use of metadiscourse in academic writing has indicated that ESL writers generally do not use metadiscourse elements to the same extent and in the same way as native English speakers. The paper will focus on the process of developing the awareness of metadiscourse features with young researchers and will attempt to gain an insight into how they adopt and apply these linguistic elements in their writing. It is based on a case study with three young researchers from the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad, Serbia, whose research articles will be analyzed in relation to the correct usage of metadiscourse as well as its potential absence, using Hyland's framework. In the subsequent analysis, a questionnaire and interviews will be used to determine the degree of young authors' awareness of their use of metadiscourse and their approach to applying it in their writing. The triangulation between the corpus analysis and the questionnaire and interview data will try to address the issues of the reasons for using specific markers, the importance they attach to the use of metadiscourse in relation to the content of the research articles, and the methods of learning them, in order to unfold the correlation of beginnings of academic writing and the use of metadiscourse. It is hoped that the results of the analysis can be applied in teaching academic writing.
As English has become the dominant language of academic communication, researchers around the wor... more As English has become the dominant language of academic communication, researchers around the world face an increased pressure to publish their results in English. Non-Anglophone writers generally face problems caused by differences in rhetorical or argumentative styles and inadequate understanding of academic writing and discipline-specific standards and requirements. This paper seeks to explore how writers from Serbia approach the demanding task of writing research articles in English. Applying a qualitative research design based on interviews conducted with a selected group of researchers and scholars from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, this small-scale study analyses the socio-organizational, linguistic and strategic aspects of this process. Two research questions are addressed: what are the most common difficulties perceived by the researchers and what strategies are most often employed to solve the problems of writing research articles in English. The results are interpre...