The introductions of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics research articles written by Slovenes and their didactical applications for the Spanish for academic purposes class Cover Image

Las introducciones de artículos de investigación de lingüística y lingüística aplicada escritas por eslovenos y sus aplicaciones didácticas para la clase de español con fi nes académicos
The introductions of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics research articles written by Slovenes and their didactical applications for the Spanish for academic purposes class

Author(s): David Heredero Zorzo, Gemma Santiago Alonso
Subject(s): Applied Linguistics, Rhetoric
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: intercultural rhetoric; academic discourse; Spanish for academic purposes; introductions; didactic applications;

Summary/Abstract: This paper is divided into two parts. In the first one, we analyze the introductions of Linguistic and Applied Linguistic research articles written in Spanish by Slovene researchers, comparing them with those written in their mother tongue by Spanish and Slovene researchers. Following the precepts from intercultural rhetoric (Connor & Moreno 2005, Connor 2011), this investigation replicates a previous one (Heredero Zorzo, Pihler Ciglič & Santiago Alonso, 2017) and establishes the existing diff erences between these languages concerning rhetorical patterns of the model usually known as CARS (Swales, 1990, 2004). After that, having in mind the differences we found in our investigations, we propose a didactic model for working the writing of research articles introductions in the Spanish for academic purposes class based on Liebman (1988), Casanave (2004), Kubota & Lehner (2004), Walker (2011) and Morales (2014). In our application we emphasize the contrastive analysis of the genre, studying CARS model and the structures used to realize its different moves and steps, as well as the importance of collaborative work between pairs.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 271-291
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Spanish