NICHE ESTABLISHMENT STRATEGIES IN RESEARCH ARTICLE ABSTRACTS AND INTRODUCTIONS: A COMPARISON BETWEEN JOURNALS INDEXED BY SCOPUS AND SINTA IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

Hasiyant, Hasiyant and Safnil, Safnil and Ira, Maisarah (2023) NICHE ESTABLISHMENT STRATEGIES IN RESEARCH ARTICLE ABSTRACTS AND INTRODUCTIONS: A COMPARISON BETWEEN JOURNALS INDEXED BY SCOPUS AND SINTA IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING. Masters thesis, Universitas Bengkulu.

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Abstract

Novice authors or postgraduate students often fail to show the novelty of their research in their research article (henceforth RA) abstracts and/or introductions. This study aims to compare how authors publishing in Scopus-indexed and those publishing in Sinta-indexed journals in English Language Teaching (henceforth ELT) in the way they establish a niche in their RA abstracts and/or introductions. For this study, 40 RAs were taken from Scopus-indexed journals and 40 from Sinta-indexed journals. A qualitative content analysis method used to collect and assess the data. The findings reveal that the majority of authors in the two sets of RAs address a research niche in the introduction section and very few of them also address it in the abstracts. From the five different niche establishment (henceforth NE) strategies, the most often employed ones in Scopus-index journals are Strategy 2 (insufficient research) and Strategy 5 (suggesting solution) while in Sinta-indexed journals Strategy 2 (insufficient research) and Strategy 1 (a complete absence of research). This study provides useful information about NE strategies in RA abstracts and/or introductions for novice authors and postgraduate students to write an RA abstract and/or introduction better. Keywords: English Language Teaching; Scopus-index journals; Sinta indexed journals; research article introduction; niche establishment strategies

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