THEMATIC PROGRESSION PATTERNS IN ELT JOURNAL ABSTRACTS

Kasyfur Rahman, M. Arsyad Arrafi’i, Imansyah Imansyah

Abstract


Developing an English cohesive and coherent writing requires an effort of connecting ideas grammatically and semantically. To explore this, we carried out a research study by analyzing fifteen journal abstracts from international journals in ELT whose impact factors are within the top 10 in the field. The data showed that the abstracts make use of integrated pattern, not relying simply upon a single pattern. The findings also suggest ambiguous relationship between some clauses, many of which rather represent inductive relationship; therefore coding them into the three thematic progression patterns in Eggins (1994) seemed to be less accommodating. Further research on this subject would then require more sophisticated research theoretical framework.


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Thematic progression pattern, journal abstract, academic writing

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33394/jo-elt.v4i2.2447

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