Exploring the Strategies for Indicating Research Gaps Used by Authors in English Education Research Article Introductions

The trend of topics in language education research is affected by how authors convince readers about the issues being discussed. However, persistence topic not based on number scholars who have conducted research, for instance, collaborative writing topics, but it focuses more newness to be contributed advancement knowledge indicating gaps. Therefore, this qualitative study, which specified into genre analysis, aims describe strategies gaps and area that are still needed fulfilled writing. A corpus consisting 20 article introductions (RAIs) published highly reputable journals with high-impact factors was compiled subjected analyze, respectively (i.e., using frameworks Lim, 2012 Ewijk, 2018) types gap areas been focused authors. findings show strategy stating absence a specific employed vast majority (45.45%). Besides, impact found as promising (occurred 24 times) tend focus on. pedagogical implications study also discussed article.