An analysis of cohesion, ties and coherence and moves in abstracts and introduction sections of master two dissertations in the department of english at Mouloud Mammeri University
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Date
2019
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Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou
Abstract
The current study focuses on functional grammar and genre analysis. It seeks to scrutinize twenty i
students’ abstract and introduction in order to identify students’ weakness in writing in a
cohesive and coherent style and reveal the different rhetorical moves followed by master two
students at the department of English of Mouloud Mammeri University, Tizi-Ouzou. To achieve
these objectives, three theoretical frameworks are employed namely :Bhatia’s abstracts
moves(2000) ,Swales and Feak's introductions moves (2009),and Halliday and Hassan's cohesive
taxonomy(1976) .This work involves the identification of some terms /sentences which express
cohesion ties and coherence and the moves of the aforementioned sections .An additional research
tool, namely an online questionnaire has been used to get an idea about the participants’
motivation towards the use of cohesion ties and coherence and the moves as an academic writing.
It was found that some abstracts and introductions have not been organized following the same
moves. The analysis of cohesion ties and coherence in students’ productions revealed that
students’ abstracts displayed grammatical cohesion as well as lexical cohesion, but it has been
noticed that students have problems with cohesive ties such as excessive repetition of lexical items,
indiscriminate use of conjunctions, misuse of pronouns and the use of pronouns without
antecedent. The conclusion to be drawn from the different outcomes, some of the moves has been
displaced and others omitted while the additional moves are to be found in some abstracts and
introduction. In what comes to cohesion and coherence, some ties are to be found while others are
absent.
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30cm ; 69p.
Keywords
Genre analysis, Moves, Functional grammar, Cohesion, Coherence, Master dissertation
Citation
Didactics of Foreign Languages