A Comparative Study of Move Analysis in Chinese and International Research Article Abstracts

To raise the authors’ awareness of using moves and move models in abstract writing, this study compares frequency, type, significant difference 100 abstracts written English by Chinese scholars international 10 prestigious journals field linguistics. The adapted Hyland’s five-move model was used as research framework, Corpus statistic software SPSS were instruments. comparisons report that tend to use introduction, result, conclusion moves. International are inclined purpose, method, results also indicate four-move is most prevalent two groups. two-move more than authors whereas less authors. findings intended provide referential value for writing teaching academic purposes.