Cultural differences in the organization of research article introductions from the field of educational psychology: English and Chinese

• Main Authors: Loi, Chek Kim, Moyra Sweetnam Evans
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: L Education (General); PE English language
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/27575/1/Cultural%20differences%20in%20the%20organization%20of%20research%20article%20introductions%20from%20the%20field%20of%20educational%20psychology_%20English%20and%20Chinese%20ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/27575/2/Cultural%20differences%20in%20the%20organization%20of%20research%20article%20introductions%20from%20the%20field%20of%20educational%20psychology_%20English%20and%20Chinese%20FULL%20TEXT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/27575/; https://isiarticles.com/bundles/Article/pre/pdf/33002.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2010.03.010

This paper investigates the rhetorical organization of the introduction sections of English and Chinese research articles in the field of educational psychology. The study reported in this paper adopts Swales’s (1990, 2004) framework of move analysis. In general, the findings of the present study re...