ENGAGEMENT MARKERS IN DISCUSSION SECTION OF RESEARCH ARTICLES WRITTEN BY ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDENTS AND ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN REPUTABLE ENGLISH JOURNAL: A COMPARATIVE DISCOURSE STUDY

Aisyah, suri and Mei, Hardiah and Muhammad, Fadhli (2022) ENGAGEMENT MARKERS IN DISCUSSION SECTION OF RESEARCH ARTICLES WRITTEN BY ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDENTS AND ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN REPUTABLE ENGLISH JOURNAL: A COMPARATIVE DISCOURSE STUDY. Undergraduated thesis, Universitas Bengkulu.

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Abstract

Many studies concerning on engagement markers (EMs) have been conducted among international authors. However, it doesn’t really trigger Indonesian scholars to study this discipline. Based on this fact, this research aimed to compare the use of EMs in 15 discussion section of research articles (RAs) written by English Education students of Bengkulu University and 15 RAs published in reputable English journal. The corpora were analyzed by using the documentation checklist with quantitative approach. The results showed that the more frequent types of EMs employed by students were knowledge appeals and directives. Similarly, experienced authors of RAs published in reputable English journal employed the same dominant EMs. However, the order of the least prevalent markers in both corpora was slightly different in which students’ RAs were reader mentions, questions, and personal asides while experienced authors’ RAs were questions, reader mentions and personal asides. The result of Chi-square test indicated that the differences on EMs used in both corpora were significant in term of quantity (with Asymp sig. 0.000) which experienced authors used a greater amount of EMs. In conclusion, the higher frequency of EMs in experienced writers’ RAs signifies authors’ awareness on using EMs to construct relation with readers. Therefore, it is important to emphasize the use of EM in academic writing. Further study is suggested to analyze the accuracy on the use of EMs in the corpora and focus on particular type of EMs for achieving more comprehensive findings. Key words: engagement markers, experienced authors, research articles discussion, students

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