Research articles have received a wide interest in discourse studies particularly in genre analysis over the last few decades. A vast number of studies have been centered on identifying the organizational patterns of research articles in various fields. While Introduction section has enjoyed a lot of attention, very few studies have focused on rhetorical structure of qualitative and quantitativ...

halliday’s systemic functional linguistics (sfl) has stood the test of time as a model of text analysis. the present literature contains a plethora of studies that while taking the ‘clause’ as a unit of analysis have put into investigation the metafunctions in research articles of a single field of study or those of various fields in comparison. although ‘clause complex’ is another unit of sf a...

James P. Lantolf is George and Jane Greer Professor Emeritus of Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics and former director of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics in the same academic unit at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is founder of the Sociocultural Theory...

This article review offers an overall description of the "Research approaches in Applied lingusitics", written by Patricia Duff back 2002. In aforementioned article, author discusses about two main to research field applied linguistics which are qualitative and quantitative approach. And provides, at same time, a deeper analysis on useful ways these can be used, how, mixing them together, mixed...

The study investigated whether there was any significant generic difference between the Research Questions (RQs) and Method sections of applied linguistics research articles (RAs) published in international and local Iranian journals. Two hundred applied linguistics RAs (100 from each group) were selected from 5 SSCI-indexed international journals and 5 Iranian Scientific-Research (Elmi-Pazhouh...

For many researchers in the social sciences, including those applied linguistics, term ethics evokes bureaucratic process of fulfilling requirements an review board (e.g., US, Institutional Review Board, or IRB) as a preliminary step conducting human subjects research. The expansion boards into sciences early 2000s has led linguistics field to experience what Haggerty (2004) termed creep , simu...