FREQUENCIES AND FUNCTIONS OF REPORTING VERBS USED IN TESOL RESEARCH ARTICLES BY VIETNAMESE WRITERS
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Using proper reporting verbs (RVs) in academic writing is too difficult for Vietnamese research writers. This corpus-based study aimed to investigate frequencies and functions of RVs in TESOL research articles written by Vietnamese writers. The corpus consisted of 35 TESOL research articles collected from a PDF book of TESOL international conference proceedings. The data were processed using Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. The findings revealed that TESOL research Vietnamese writers had a tendency to use group of RVs with neutral position. The results of the functional analysis of RVS indicated eleven functions of RVs including agreement, argument/persuasion, believing, conclusion, disagreement/ questioning, discussion, emphasis, evaluation/examination, explanation, presentation, and discussion. The results will provide TESOL research Vietnamese writers, research scholars as well as students from all disciplines at higher education with more knowledge of RVs that they will use for their future academic writing and international publishing.
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corpus, frequencies, reporting verbs, international publishing, academic writing
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