A FUNCTION-FIRST APPROACH TO VERB TENSE USAGE IN RESEARCH ARTICLE INTRODUCTIONS IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Öğretim Üyesi İsmet Öztürk · Dil Dergisi · 2019
The study aims to investigate verb tense usage in research article introductions in the field of Applied Linguistics by adopting a 'function-first' approach.The corpus used in the study consists of 50 research article introductions published in five prominent journals of the field.The communicative function of the sentences was determined on the basis Swales ' (1990; 2004) CARS (Create a Research Space) model.In the coding of data Maxqda 11 was used.The results show that each function is associated with particular verb tense.