Formal features of Filipino ESL research papers

College

Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC College of Education

Department/Unit

Dept of English and Applied Linguistics

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Asian EFL Journal

Volume

24

Issue

1

First Page

29

Last Page

44

Publication Date

1-2020

Abstract

This paper investigated the formal and non-formal features of academic writing in 15 research papers (RP) written by Filipino teachers who consider English as an ESL. The framework used is that of Swales and Feak’s (2004) features of academic writing. The frequency and percentage of these features were then obtained by dividing the frequency of informal features by the number of RPs. Some deviations were found in the different sections of the RPs namely Introduction, Method, Results & Discussion and Conclusion. The sections with the most deviations in descending order are the Results and Discussion, Introduction, Method and Conclusion sections. Based on the findings, implications for teaching academic writing were presented in the conclusion.

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Disciplines

English Language and Literature | Language and Literacy Education

Keywords

Academic writing; English language—Study and teaching—Filipino speakers

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