Designing EAP materials based on intercultural corpus analyses: the case of logical markers in research articles

Pilar Mur Dueñas

doi:10.4995/rlyla.2009.739

Authors

Pilar Mur Dueñas Universidad de Zaragoza

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4995/rlyla.2009.739

Keywords:

Intercultural Rhetoric, English for Academic Purposes, research article, metadiscourse, logical markers

Abstract

The ultimate aim of intercultural analyses in English for Academic Purposes is to help non-native scholars function successfully in the international disciplinary community in English. The aim of this paper is to show how corpus-based intercultural analyses can be useful to design EAP materials on a particular metadiscourse category, logical markers, in research article writing. The paper first describes the analysis carried out of additive, contrastive and consecutive logical markers in a corpus of research articles in English and in Spanish in a particular discipline, Business Management. Differences were found in their frequency and also in the use of each of the sub-categories. Then, five activities designed on the basis of these results are presented. They are aimed at raising Spanish Business scholars' awareness of the specific uses and pragmatic function of frequent logical markers in international research articles in English.

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