Interacting with readers: How nonnative authors of English use meta-discourse markers in their research article abstracts published in English medium journals

The use of appropriate rhetorical moves (RMs) and meta-discourse markers (MMs) improve the argumentative persuasive force academic texts, such as essays, thesis, seminar papers, articles. However, authors from a different language background level expertise may RMs MMs when writing in foreign language. This study is aimed at describing how Indonesian Applied Linguistics their research article abstracts (RAAs) published international local journals. 20 RAAs journals were chosen for corpora this study. Swales (2009) five move Hyland's (2005) taxonomy used models analyses. results reveal that journal readers’ expectations, only 3 Moves (Moves 2, & 4) classified obligatory 2 1 5) conventional. Also, they interactive far more frequently Move 4 because these two are relatively longer than other three moves. As found similar studies, interactional concern text cohesion, coherence, convincing rather interaction with potential readers.