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Linguistic Discourse Analysis of the Lexico-Grammatical Features of Moves in the Research Abstracts of Medical Students in a Ghanaian University

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Title: Linguistic Discourse Analysis of the Lexico-Grammatical Features of Moves in the Research Abstracts of Medical Students in a Ghanaian University
Language: English
Authors: Peace Fiadzomor (ORCID 0009-0000-9607-9320), Kabelo Sebolai (ORCID 0000-0003-4879-1211), Brenton Grant Fredericks (ORCID 0000-0002-8321-6338)
Source: Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics. 2024 7(2).
Availability: Castledown Publishers. Ground Level, 470 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, 3004, Australia. Tel: +61-3-7003-8355; e-mail: contact@castledown.com; Web site: https://castledown.online/journals/ajal/
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 20
Publication Date: 2024
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Medical Students, Medical Education, Word Frequency, Grammar, Morphemes, Computational Linguistics, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Documentation, Writing Evaluation, Universities, Vocabulary Skills, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Geographic Terms: Ghana
ISSN: 2209-0959
Abstract: Writing a quality research abstract is crucial for a scholarly report. An abstract should be informational and lexically dense, be formal, and have a professional tone. This requires precision, objectivity, logicality, technicality, and comprehensiveness. However, writing a good research abstract is a hurdle for novice and inexperienced undergraduate students who study English as a second language worldwide. This study investigated the research abstracts written by undergraduate medical students who also studied the English language at the University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ho, Ghana. A qualitative-quantitative approach, guided by Hyland's five-move model, was used to analyse the lexico-grammatical features in the rhetorical moves of the research abstracts written by these students. A corpus of 23 extracts representing a quota of sample tenses, hedges, boosters, and nominalisation was analysed. The data were coded manually and presented as frequency counts and percentages in tables and graphically. The results revealed that rhetorical moves in the research abstracts written by the students were filled with simple past, simple present, and perfect tenses, alongside lexico-grammatical devices such as hedges, boosters, and nominalisation to a greater or lesser extent. We conclude that the research abstracts follow Hyland's rhetorical five-move model, and comprise specific lexico-grammatical features. The pedagogical implications are discussed, and suggestions for future research are provided.
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Entry Date: 2024
Accession Number: EJ1452784
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