A Contrastive Corpus-based Analysis of the Use of Reporting Verbs by Native and Non-native ELT Researchers

Ana dili İngilizce olan ve olmayan araştırmacıların aktarma fiillerini kullanımını karşılaştıran birçok araştırma olmasına rağmen ana dili Türkçe olan araştırmacılar üzerinde yapılan az sayıda çalışma vardır. Bu çalışmanın amacı; (1) İngiliz Dili Eğitimi alanında çalışan, ana dili İngilizce olan ve Türkçe olan araştırmacıların en sık kullandığı aktarma fiillerini bulma, bu filler arasındaki işlevsel ve kullanım yerleri açısından farklılıkları araştırma, (2) ana dili Türkçe olan araştırmacıların ana dili İngilizce olan araştırmacılara kıyasla bazı aktarma fiillerini daha fazla kullanıp kullanmadığını araştırma ve (3) eğer fazla kullanılan fiiller varsa bunların en çok kullanılan üçünü sözdizimsel açıdan incelemektir. Bu araştırma sorularına cevap bulmak amacıyla İngiliz Dili Eğitimi alanından hakemli ve uluslararası yayın yapan dergilerden alınan 160 makaleden oluşan iki derlem oluşturulmuştur. Araştırmada revealed, indicated ve observed gibi bazı fiillerin anadili Türkçe olan araştırmacılar tarafından daha çok kullanıldığı tespit edilmiştir. Aynı zamanda, aktarma fiillerinin kullanımında sözdizimsel açıdan iki derlem arasında farklılıklar bulunmuş ve bunlar incelenmiştir

Anadili İngilizce Olan ve Anadili İngilizce Olmayan İngiliz Dili Eğitimi Araştırmacılarının Aktarım Filleri Kullanımlarının Karşılaştırmalı Derlem Temelli Analizi

Although there have been many studies comparing native and non-native researchers, few of those studies have been on the use of reporting verbs by Turkish EFL researchers. The purpose of this study is to investigate (1) the most frequently used reporting verbs by native and non-native researchers in ELT and functional and positional differences in the use of these reporting verbs, (2) if there are any overused reporting verbs in non-native ELT research articles with reference to native ELT research articles and (3) if there are any differences between native and nonnative ELT research articles in terms of the syntactic patterning of the first three overused reporting verbs. To shed light on these research questions, two corpora of 160 ELT research articles published in peer-reviewed, international journals in the field of language teaching were compiled and analyzed. Out of these 160 research articles, 80 of them werewritten by non-native researchers, and the other 80 articles were written by their native counterparts. The findings indicated that some reporting verbs, like revealed, indicated and observed are overused by non-native researchers. Also, there are some differences in the use of reporting verbs in terms of syntactic patterning between the two corpora. The results of the study may help non-native researchers improve their academic writing skills

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