Moves of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering English Research Article Abstracts Published in Thai Journals
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Writing research article (RA) abstracts in English is one of the requirements for science and technical educational researchers who need to promote their studies nationally and internationally. It is one of those challenging tasks apart from other research article sections. As English has practically become an international language, most published RAs are written in English. This places difficulties on Nonnative speaking of English (NNS) in EFL settings. The objective of this study is to identify the moves of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering English RA abstracts published in Thai journals. Forty English abstracts were purposively selected from Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering journals published in Thailand to form a corpus. The analysis was conducted using Hyland’s (2000) which included Electrical Engineering abstract moves framework. The findings of this study demonstrate that the analyzed abstracts tend to take a mismatched structure rather than the modeled framework. Although the findings reveal a difference between the actual practice and the chosen framework, this can imply that the writers in this particular discipline chose to present their work in ways that fail to conform to a universal framework. The present study suggests that its results can serve as an additional guideline for novice researchers to help them be able to write English RA abstracts properly in their field.
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บทความที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์เป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของวารสาร สักทอง : วารสารมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์ สถาบันวิจัยและพัฒนา มหาวิทยาลับราชภัฏกำแพงเพชร
ข้อคิดเห็นใดๆ ที่ปรากฎในวารสารเป็นวรรณกรรมของผู้เขียนโดยเฉพาะ ซึ่งมหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏกำแพงเพชรและบรรณาธิการไม่จำเป็นต้องเห็นด้วย
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