A corpus-based study of stance expression in EFL students’ article review writing
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https://doi.org/10.33633/lite.v21i2.13518Keywords:
academic writing, corpus linguistics, EFL, review, stance expressionAbstract
Academic writing is a skill that needs to be mastered by students in the English Department. One of the ways to practice academic writing is through a critical review, in which students are assigned to write a review of a scientific journal article. This research investigates the students’ critical review writing by employing a corpus-based approach. AntConc software was used for quantitative analysis, and then the results were interpreted qualitatively. The corpus was compiled from the review assignment results of papers written by the fifth semester students’ majoring in Linguistics. The result reveals that attitude markers are the stance markers commonly used by the students in the texts, followed by hedges, self-mentions, and boosters. This finding suggests that the students frequently involved their feelings by expressing personal affective of stance. It also demonstrates the students’ engagement with the texts they reviewed and their attempt to think critically instead of only retelling facts, despite the possibility of subjectivities. This research concludes that writing reviews can help the students to think critically and express academic evaluation and argumentation in English.References
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