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ABSTRACT

Received date: 22/03/2016

Accepted date: 30/03/2017

This article reports on a recent corpus and genre-based investigation of the move structure in research article introductions (RAIs) in two constituent areas of inquiry in applied linguistics, namely language learning & teaching and pragmatics & discourse analysis. The corpus consists of 30 RAIs extracted from 30 parent empirical research articles written by English native speakers and published in high impact factor English-medium applied linguistics journals between 2011 and 2013. The analytical tool was developed both with reference to Swales’ (1990, 2004) CARS models and a preliminary examination of the corpus built for this particular study. Findings revealed sub-disciplinary corpus-based variations of this schematic structure, at both the move and step tiers.

Keywords

CARS framework, genre analysis, move structure, research article introductions

Cited as: Hai, D. X., 2017. Sub-disciplinary variation in the move structure of English-medium research article introductions in applied linguistics. Can Tho University Journal of Science. Vol 5: 1-9.