THEMATIC ORGANIZATION IN MA TEFL STUDENTS' ARGUMENTATIVE, CAUSE AND EFFECT, AND PROCESS TYPES OF WRITING

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AHANGARI SAEIDEH

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Journal: THE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE Year:2013 | Volume:6 | Issue:12 Page(s): 1-23

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THEMATIC ORGANIZATION IN MA TEFL STUDENTS' ARGUMENTATIVE, CAUSE AND EFFECT, AND PROCESS TYPES OF WRITING

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SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS (SFL)Q2

THEMATIC STRUCTUREQ2

THEMEQ2

RHEMEQ2

ARGUMENTATIVEQ2

PROCESSQ2

AND CAUSE AND EFFECT WRITINGQ2

Abstract

It is generally recognized that many second language learners have difficulties with cohesion in academic texts. Writing seems to be the most difficult subject for many students. To produce good writing, it is necessary to know how to organize THEME and RHEME in a text. THEMATIC STRUCTURE as an important feature in textual metafunction plays a significant role in promoting the textual coherence. This research is concerned with the insights presenting the relationship between THEME and RHEME derived from Systemic Functional Linguistics. Halliday (1994) claimed that the structuring of language as a message is realized in the THEMATIC STRUCTUREs of the constituent clauses of a text. To Halliday, the basic unit for thematic analysis is the clause. Thereby, this study was an attempt to compare different thematic types and thematic progression patterns in EFL students' academic writing texts. For this purpose, the researcher selected 30 MA students of English language teaching as the participants of the study after administering a TOEFL test and excluding the outliers. Each participant was required to write three different types of ARGUMENTATIVE, PROCESS and cause & affect compositions. The collected data were analyzed according to the Thematization PROCESS from the textual metafunction aspects. The results showed some differences in the THEMATIC STRUCTURE of the different types of compositions. The findings of this study have some implications to the EFL students. They can learn to perform the same analysis in their own writings; thus improving cohesion in their own texts.Theme/rheme plays a major role in organizing the message and in enabling it to be communicated and understood clearly.

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AHANGARI, SAEIDEH. (2013). THEMATIC ORGANIZATION IN MA TEFL STUDENTS' ARGUMENTATIVE, CAUSE AND EFFECT, AND PROCESS TYPES OF WRITING. THE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE, 6(12), 1-23. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/181384/en

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AHANGARI SAEIDEH. THEMATIC ORGANIZATION IN MA TEFL STUDENTS' ARGUMENTATIVE, CAUSE AND EFFECT, AND PROCESS TYPES OF WRITING. THE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE[Internet]. 2013;6(12):1-23. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/181384/en

IEEE: Copy

SAEIDEH AHANGARI, “THEMATIC ORGANIZATION IN MA TEFL STUDENTS' ARGUMENTATIVE, CAUSE AND EFFECT, AND PROCESS TYPES OF WRITING,” THE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE, vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 1–23, 2013, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/181384/en

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