KWAN’S MODEL (2006) Of MOVE ANALYSIS 1

Kwan’s Model of move analysis

Syed Adnan Ali Shah

Roll no 18834

Bs English 4th semester

Section B
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ARTICLE/PAPER

An Attitudinal Study of Pakistani English

Moves Presence of the move no. of items the moves

appeared
Move 1: Establishing
Territory of own
research
Step 1: Surveying the none 1
research related phenomena
Step 2: Claiming centrality 1
Step 3: Surveying research
related phenomena
Move 2: Creating
research Niche
Step 1: Counter claiming 7
Step 2: Indicating gap

Step 3: Asserting confirmative

claims about knowledge or
research practices surveyed

Step 4: Asserting the

relevancy of the surveyed
claims to one’s own research
Step 5: Synthesizing
knowledge claims to establish 3
a theoretical position
Move 3: Occupying the
research niche
Step 1: research aims, focuses, 2
research questions
Step 2: theoretical 1
positions/frameworks
Step 3: research
design/processes
Step 4: interpretations of 1
terminology used in the thesis
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Qualitative Analysis

Move 1

Step 1

In step one; the researcher defined the attitudinal study and importance of English

language:

When we talk about the users’ attitude towards English language, we see that the attitudes have

shifted along with the role and importance of English in a particular society.

Step 2

In step two; the researcher gave details about the importance of English language:

English plays a leading role in the world because it was the language of British Empire and the

language of colonial expansion between 17th and 19th centuries. But attitudes towards English

have changed with the passage of time.

This is non researched statement but act as the centrality of the article.

Step 3

In this article the researcher claimed and referred so many researches in order to support

the article and solve the problems related with research article. Some of them are:

The attitudes have been studied from the vantage point of different variables such as age (Stables

& Wikeleyt, 1999), gender (Kobayashi, 2002), identity (Kim, Siong, Fey & Yaakov, 2010), socio-

political views (Dewaele, 2005; Wiebesiek, Rudwick & Zeller, 2011), socio-psychological

orientation (Chalak & Kassaian, 2010), aspects of solidarity and status (El-Dash & Busnardo,

2001), the role of context where English is used (Al-Tammie & Shuib, 2009), the native vs. non-

native models (Tsui & Benton, 2000) as well as social status and the role of English language

in a particular community (De Kadt, 1993). Crismore, Ngeow, and Soo (1996) have studies the
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attitude of teachers whereas Mastuda (2000) has analyzed the opinions of students towards

English as a foreign language.

These are all references that he mentioned to back his research article.

Move 2
Step 5
From all the research articles author claimed a new idea and that is:

All these studies indicate that there is a wide gulf in the nature of different communities’

responses to English which range from resentment to partial tolerance in certain contexts.

Move 3

Step 1

In this move the researcher asked question about his topic of article and with help of

question he cleared his aim and objectives.

Should English be used as a medium of instruction and the implications of this decision have

haunted the pedagogical world and the policy makers for decades now?

Step 2

In this step the researcher described the theoretical framework of his research:

English, widely used for the official purposes in government, judiciary, education and technical

fields, is still a minority language in Pakistan.

Step 4
In this step the author announced the adoption of term which is:

English in Pakistan serves in various socio-cultural contexts to perform roles relevant and

appropriate to the social and educational network of Pakistan. The impact of English is

increasing rapidly. So it is pertinent that the attitude of Pakistani users towards English language

be explored.
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ARTICLE/PAPER

Genre Analysis of Applied linguistics Research Article Introductions

Published in International and Iranian Local Journals

Moves Presence of the move no. of items the moves

appeared
Move 1: Establishing
Territory of own
research
Step 1: Surveying the none 1
research related phenomena
Step 2: Claiming centrality
Step 3: Surveying research 2
related phenomena
Move 2: Creating
research Niche
Step 1: Counter claiming
Step 2: Indicating gap

Step 3: Asserting confirmative

claims about knowledge or
research practices surveyed

Step 4: Asserting the

relevancy of the surveyed
claims to one’s own research
Step 5: Synthesizing
knowledge claims to establish 1
a theoretical position
Move 3: Occupying the
research niche
Step 1: research aims, focuses, 3
research questions
Step 2: theoretical
positions/frameworks
Step 3: research
design/processes
Step 4: interpretations of
terminology used in the thesis
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Qualitative analysis

Move 1

Step 1

In step 1 the researcher gave introduction to the topic of his research article in the

following sentence.

An experimental research article is a genre in which the developmental stages of a scientific

Experiment is documented.

Step 3

The researcher also used the ideas of other researcher to support his claims about the

article.

Hirano (2009) compared the rhetorical organization of RAIs written in Brazilian Portuguese

And English from applied linguistics discipline.

Ozturk (2007) studied structural organization of RAIs in second language acquisition

Research and second language writing research, two sub disciplines of applied linguistics.

These are the studies about language acquisition and applied linguistics in order to

support his claims.

Move 2

Step 5

This step introduced new steps of research claiming as mentioned in the following

sentence:
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The English introductions show great concern for the inclusion of background information

and a separate step dedicated to the review of previous research but they also tend to

stress the writer's own work and its Originality and contributions to the field of study.

Move 3

Step 1

In this step the researcher asked some questions which are given below:

What kinds of verbs (semantic and syntactic) are used in AL RAIs published in

Local Iranian and in international journal

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ARTICLE/PAPER

LINGUISTICS IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

Moves Presence of the move no. of items the moves

appeared
Move 1: Establishing
Territory of own
research
Step 1: Surveying the none 1
research related phenomena
Step 2: Claiming centrality
Step 3: Surveying research 7
related phenomena
Move 2: Creating
research Niche
Step 1: Counter claiming
Step 2: Indicating gap

Step 3: Asserting confirmative

claims about knowledge or 1
research practices surveyed

Step 4: Asserting the

relevancy of the surveyed
claims to one’s own research
Step 5: Synthesizing
knowledge claims to establish
a theoretical position
Move 3: Occupying the
research niche
Step 1: research aims, focuses,
research questions
Step 2: theoretical
positions/frameworks
Step 3: research
design/processes
Step 4: interpretations of
terminology used in the thesis
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Qualitative analysis

Move 1

Step 1

In step 1 author gave details theory about the atopic of their research article which is:

The field is not infrequently criticized and derided by the parent science, linguistics, which

claims authority over academic terrain that applied linguists consider their own.

It should be said, however, that applied linguists themselves seem to attract such adversity

because of the lack of consensus within their own ranks about what it is they are actually

engaged in.

Step 2

The researcher backed his research article by adding the following research articles:

Begins from local and quite practical problems” (Candling 1988: vii)

The practice-before-theory paradigm might, for many applied linguists, describe the central

plank upon which the discipline is built although the antithesis of this approach, theory-before-

practice, has just as often been used to solve applied linguistic problems (de Bauer ande 1997:

310)

Move 2

Step 3

In this research article the researcher used a claim which used made about the

significance, value or strength of citations:

Indeed, a geographical metaphor which alludes to the merging together of the numerous

scattered principalities of modern-day Germany both freeze-frames a discipline in the early

stages of its development and embraces the paradox of an enquiry that extends out in all
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directions without leaving behind the sort of trace that might serve to delimit its investigative

boundaries.

Move 3

Step 3

The researcher was announcing the research design or the research process of =his research

article in following sentence:

This paper attempts to shed some light on why the field of applied linguistics continues to

generate doubt and misgiving as an academic enquiry.

Step 4

In this step author was announcing the adoption of terms or definition of terms in the following

sentences:

The first part looks at the emergence of the discipline through the formation of its associations

and publications and identifies the practical area of second and foreign language. The second

part examines how theoretical linguistics has come to form a point of departure in defining.