A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON INTERACTIVE META-DISCOURSE USED IN RESEARCH ARTICLE DISCUSSIONS PUBLISHED IN HIGH- AND LOW-RANKING ELT JOURNALS BY INDONESIAN AUTHORS

Yoni, Apriani and Dedi, Sofyan and Ildi, Kurniawan (2022) A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON INTERACTIVE META-DISCOURSE USED IN RESEARCH ARTICLE DISCUSSIONS PUBLISHED IN HIGH- AND LOW-RANKING ELT JOURNALS BY INDONESIAN AUTHORS. Undergraduated thesis, Universitas Bengkulu.

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Abstract

Many studies concerning meta-discourse markers have been conducted by researchers in some parts of academic texts in applied linguistics and linguistics field. However, it has not been conducted yet in the research article discussions at different ranking ELT journals. Therefore, this research aimed to investigate how Indonesian authors used the interactive meta-discourse markers in research article discussions published in high-ranking and low-ranking ELT journals and investigating the differences of the usage of interactive meta-discourse markers used by them in both groups of journals. This research used a quantitative approach with a comparative design that investigated 32 research article discussions published in high-ranking and low-ranking ELT journals in 2020. The data were taken by using the purposive sampling technique and they were analyzed by using genre-based discourse analysis or communicative purpose analysis (CPA) principle following the meta-discourse’s framework of Hyland (2005). The results showed that Indonesian authors of high-ranking and low-ranking ELT journals used all of the interactive meta-discourse in research article discussions, but the most frequent marker used by them was transition markers. Moreover, Indonesian authors of high-ranking ELT journals used more transition, frame marker, endophoric, and code glosses markers than low-ranking ELT journals. Meanwhile, the evidential marker was more often used by Indonesian authors of low-ranking ELT journals. These findings inform the importance of using the interactive meta-discourse markers in writing the research article discussion for Indonesian authors. Keywords: ELT journals, high-and-low ranking journals, interactive meta�discourse, research article discussion.

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