A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HEDGES IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING RESEARCH ARTICLE’S DISCUSSION WRITTEN BY INDONESIAN PROFESSIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL WRITERS

Hasanah, Eni Uswatun and Dedi, Sofyan and Mei, Hardiah (2023) A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HEDGES IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING RESEARCH ARTICLE’S DISCUSSION WRITTEN BY INDONESIAN PROFESSIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL WRITERS. Undergraduated thesis, Universitas Bengkulu.

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Abstract

This research aimed to investigate the type of hedges frequently used by Indonesian professional and international professional writers in the Research Article Discussions (RADs) in English Language Teaching (ELT) journals. Moreover, this research investigated the differences in the use of hedges in both groups of writers viewed from the frequency of the occurrences of the hedges. This comparative study employed a descriptive-quantitative method that used ten corpora as the samples of this research taken from TEFLIN and IJAL journals. The sampling technique used in this research was purposive. The data were analyzed using the taxonomy of hedges of Hyland (2005), and the results were presented in frequency and percentage. The results showed that Indonesian professional writers used more epistemic adverbs and adjectives in their RADs, followed by modal auxiliaries and epistemic lexical verbs. Meanwhile, international professional writers included more modal auxiliaries than other types of hedges in writing their RADs, followed by epistemic adverbs and adjectives and epistemic lexical verbs. Moreover, there is a different use of hedges in the RADs written between Indonesian professional and international professional writers in making claims. These findings imply that different writers' backgrounds apply different writing strategies in positioning themselves to show their confidence and the certainty of their claims in writing the RADs. Keywords: English language teaching journals, hedges, Indonesian professional and international writers, research article discussion.

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