Generic structures and linguistic features of TESOL master’s thesis acknowledgements written by Vietnamese postgraduates

Acknowledgements are a widely used genre in academic discourse to express gratitude towards various types of assistance and contribution of individuals and institutions, and they have been reported to be contextually and culturally interwoven. Despite a number of acknowledgement studies in various...

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Main Author:	Nguyen Thi Thuy Loan
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11289/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11289/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11289/1/15821-54512-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-112892018-01-21T14:57:30Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11289/ Generic structures and linguistic features of TESOL master’s thesis acknowledgements written by Vietnamese postgraduates Nguyen Thi Thuy Loan, Acknowledgements are a widely used genre in academic discourse to express gratitude towards various types of assistance and contribution of individuals and institutions, and they have been reported to be contextually and culturally interwoven. Despite a number of acknowledgement studies in various settings, little is known of how these texts are composed by EFL writers in Vietnam and whether or not the culture has any influence on the composition of acknowledgements as reported in previous studies of acknowledgements. Following Hyland’s (2004) and Hyland and Tse’s (2004) frameworks, this study investigates the generic structures and linguistic elements of acknowledgements in 202 TESOL master’s theses written by Vietnamese postgraduates. The findings were compared with those in the literature to explore cross-cultural variations in acknowledgement writing. Semi-structured interviews were also conducted with actual thesis writers. The results revealed that these writers generally followed Hyland’s (2004) three-tier structure of writing thesis acknowledgements, but they were frank and less reserved in expressing their gratitude than their Chinese-speaking counterparts. Moreover, socio-cultural expectations, personal dispositions, and individual writing styles mainly affected their move constructions, inclusions of acknowledgees and linguistic choices. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11289/1/15821-54512-1-PB.pdf Nguyen Thi Thuy Loan, (2017) Generic structures and linguistic features of TESOL master’s thesis acknowledgements written by Vietnamese postgraduates. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 23 (2). pp. 27-40. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/972
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description	Acknowledgements are a widely used genre in academic discourse to express gratitude towards various types of assistance and contribution of individuals and institutions, and they have been reported to be contextually and culturally interwoven. Despite a number of acknowledgement studies in various settings, little is known of how these texts are composed by EFL writers in Vietnam and whether or not the culture has any influence on the composition of acknowledgements as reported in previous studies of acknowledgements. Following Hyland’s (2004) and Hyland and Tse’s (2004) frameworks, this study investigates the generic structures and linguistic elements of acknowledgements in 202 TESOL master’s theses written by Vietnamese postgraduates. The findings were compared with those in the literature to explore cross-cultural variations in acknowledgement writing. Semi-structured interviews were also conducted with actual thesis writers. The results revealed that these writers generally followed Hyland’s (2004) three-tier structure of writing thesis acknowledgements, but they were frank and less reserved in expressing their gratitude than their Chinese-speaking counterparts. Moreover, socio-cultural expectations, personal dispositions, and individual writing styles mainly affected their move constructions, inclusions of acknowledgees and linguistic choices.
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author	Nguyen Thi Thuy Loan,
spellingShingle	Nguyen Thi Thuy Loan, Generic structures and linguistic features of TESOL master’s thesis acknowledgements written by Vietnamese postgraduates
author_facet	Nguyen Thi Thuy Loan,
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title	Generic structures and linguistic features of TESOL master’s thesis acknowledgements written by Vietnamese postgraduates
title_short	Generic structures and linguistic features of TESOL master’s thesis acknowledgements written by Vietnamese postgraduates
title_full	Generic structures and linguistic features of TESOL master’s thesis acknowledgements written by Vietnamese postgraduates
title_fullStr	Generic structures and linguistic features of TESOL master’s thesis acknowledgements written by Vietnamese postgraduates
title_full_unstemmed	Generic structures and linguistic features of TESOL master’s thesis acknowledgements written by Vietnamese postgraduates
title_sort	generic structures and linguistic features of tesol master’s thesis acknowledgements written by vietnamese postgraduates
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2017
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11289/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11289/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11289/1/15821-54512-1-PB.pdf
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Generic structures and linguistic features of TESOL master’s thesis acknowledgements written by Vietnamese postgraduates

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