1. Full name of PhD student: Pham Thi To Loan 2. Gender: Female
3. Date of birth: July 22, 1984 4. Place of birth: Nghe An
5. Decision on recognition of PhD students: Decision No. 2775/2020/QD-XHNV dated December 31, 2020 of the President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
6. Changes during the training process: Adjust the thesis topic name from "Comparing the structure of Vietnamese and English scientific articles in economics" to "Comparing the structure of discourse genres of English and Vietnamese scientific articles in economics" according to Decision No. 3581/QD-XHNV dated December 1, 2022 of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU Hanoi.
7. Thesis topic: Comparing the discourse genre structure of English and Vietnamese scientific articles in economics.
8. Major: Comparative Linguistics 9. Code: 9229020.03
10. Scientific advisors: 1. Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thi Phuong Thuy
2. Associate Professor, Dr. Dao Thanh Lan
11. Summary of new results of the thesis:
- Research purpose:
The study aims to survey, compare, and contrast in order to clarify the similarities and differences in the structure of discourse genres in English and Vietnamese scientific articles in economic journals. On that basis, the study will provide suggestions on language teaching and research for undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers, young lecturers who are just starting their research careers, researchers aiming for international publication, higher education institutions and domestic scientific journals.
- Research subjects:
The research object of the thesis is the structure of discourse genres in English and Vietnamese scientific articles in domestic and international economic journals.
- Research method:
+ Genre analysis method
+ Comparison method
+ Descriptive method
+ Statistical techniques
- Main results and conclusions:
The results of the study show that both English and Vietnamese corpora use relatively many actions and steps in the framework for analyzing the structure of the article genre to fulfill the purposes and functions of the text. However, the actions and steps present in the English corpora account for a high proportion while the structure of Vietnamese articles tends to lack some important actions and steps, contributing to the success of the scientific article. Specifically, out of 23 actions and 45 steps in the framework for analyzing the structure of the scientific article genre, the English corpora use 21 actions and 30 steps while the Vietnamese corpora use 17 actions and 20 steps.
Explanations from the perspective of education and international publishing experience have been presented in the thesis to provide a thorough understanding of the differences in the discourse structure of English and Vietnamese scientific articles. In general, the level of compliance with the structure of scientific article genres in Vietnamese corpus has not been given due attention; therefore, the thesis provides policy suggestions and practical recommendations for students, lecturers, researchers, higher education institutions and specialized journals in the country. Accordingly, higher education institutions need to integrate the content of the discourse structure of the scientific article genre into the academic writing course to equip students with standard knowledge of article structure. In addition, training in academic writing skills for lecturers with the aim of publishing articles in prestigious domestic and foreign journals needs to be focused on. For higher education institutions, in order to move towards standards in research and scientific articles, creative and critical thinking needs to be nurtured and developed for generations of students. Finally, this study also provides recommendations for economic journals as well as other specialized journals in improving standards, regulations, and formats for the discourse structure of articles, thereby affirming the prestige and quality of domestic and foreign journals.
- New contributions of the thesis:
In theory:
- The thesis is one of the few works that synthesize theoretical research on the genre structure of the entire article because previous studies in the country and in the world have only mentioned the genre structure of one or a few components in the main text of the article.
- The thesis also adds scientific arguments for domestic universities and academies in building the structure of presenting scientific articles, scientific research reports, theses and dissertations in economics in the direction of approaching international standards; at the same time, it also provides scientific arguments on the standard genre structure of research articles for domestic specialized journals.
In practice:
- The research results are a valuable reference source for students, graduate students, researchers, and young lecturers in economics and other fields to help them approach the standard structure of a scientific article to have direction in writing and publishing in prestigious domestic and international journals.
- The research results of the thesis are the basis for specialized journals to complete the requirements for the structure of scientific article genres according to international standards to improve the quality of articles, thereby increasing the opportunity to be indexed and ranked in prestigious world databases such as Scopus and Web of Science.
- This is the first study to compare and contrast the genre structure of English and Vietnamese scientific articles in economics on the discourse level in Vietnam, so the practical recommendations drawn from the research results are novel and contribute significantly to discourse knowledge in the Vietnamese context.
12. Further research directions:
The thesis gives some suggestions for further research directions as follows:
- Firstly, the application of the approach of analyzing scientific article discourse genres to other fields such as Linguistics, Literature, Information Technology, Pedagogy, Mathematics, Agriculture, Psychology, Law, etc. needs to be further expanded in the context of higher education institutions across the country promoting international publications in all training fields to affirm their position in training and scientific research domestically and internationally.
- Second, studies can also focus on comparing and contrasting the structure of discourse genres in interdisciplinary scientific articles to find out the similarities and differences between training fields, thereby contributing more comprehensive and comprehensive knowledge about scientific discourse.
- Third, the thesis also recommends implementing structural studies of other discourse genres in academic writing such as essays, theses, dissertations, textbooks, books, etc. to provide knowledge about discourse structures in these types of texts, serving the teaching of academic writing courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as for academic discourse research in the field of Linguistics.
13. Publications related to the thesis:
1. Pham Thi To Loan (2021), “Comparing the coherence structure of English and Vietnamese scientific article summaries in economics”, Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 7(3b), pp. 606-616.
2. Pham Thi To Loan (2021), “Constrastive analysis of rhetorical structure in economics research article abstract in English and Vietnamese journals”, International Graduate Research Symposium, University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University, pp. 167-176.
3. Pham Thi To Loan, Nguyen Thi Phuong Thuy (2022), “Rhetorical structure of introduction section in English and Vietnamese research articles in Economics field: A contrastive analysis”, Interdisciplinary research in linguistics and language education-VII international conference - Hue University, pp. 349-362.
4. Pham Thi To Loan, Nguyen Thi Phuong Thuy (2022), “Comparing the coherent structure of the introduction in English and Vietnamese scientific articles in economics”, Journal of Foreign Studies, 38(4), pp. 63-75.
5. Pham Thi To Loan, Nguyen Thi Phuong Thuy (2023), "Research on the genre structure of the Discussion section in the graduation thesis of language major students", Ho Chi Minh City Open University Journal of Science - Science and Society, 18(1), pp. 48-55.
6. Thi To Loan Pham (2023), “Move structure of Results and Discussion chapter in undergraduate theses written by Vietnamese English major students”, In NT Vu, H. Dinh, K. Bui & H. Nguyen (Eds.), English Language Teaching in Vietnam: Reflections, Innovations, and Insights, Eliva Press, pp. 116-134. ISBN: 9994988808
INFORMATION ON DOCTORAL THESIS
1. Full name: Pham Thi To Loan 2. Sex: Female
3. Date of birth: July 22, 1984 4. Place of birth: Nghe An
5. Admission decision number 2775/2020/QD-XHNV dated December 31, 2020 by University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
6. Changes in academic process: Change in thesis title from “A contrastive analysis of structure in Vietnamese and English research articles in economics journals” to “A contrastive analysis of genre structure of research articles in English and Vietnamese economics journals” according to decision number 3581/QD-XHNV, dated 01 December, 2022 by University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
7. Official thesis title: A contrastive analysis of genre structure of research articles in English and Vietnamese economics journals
8. Major: Contrastive - comparative Linguistics 9. Code: 9229020.03
10. Supervisors: 1. Assoc. Prof. PhD. Nguyen Thi Phuong Thuy
2. Assoc. Prof. PhD. Dao Thanh Lan
11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis:
- Research Purposes:
The thesis aims to investigate and conduct contrastive analysis of the genre structure of English and Vietnamese research articles in national and international economics journals. From the findings, the study provides implications on pedagogy and linguistics research for undergraduate and post-graduate students, young lecturers, early-career researchers, researchers with international publication orientation, higher education institutions, and national academic journals.
- Research subject:
The subject of the thesis is the genre structure of English and Vietnamese research articles in national and international economics journals.
- Research methods:
+ Genre analysis method
+ Contrastive analysis method
+ Descriptive method
+ Descriptive statistics technique
- Major results and conclusion:
The results indicate that both English and Vietnamese corpora utilize a considerable number of moves and steps in the analytical framework of research article genre structure in order to perform communicative functions of the text. However, while there is high frequency of moves and steps in English corpus, Vietnamese corpus has the tendency to omit a certain number of important moves and steps which contributes to the success of the article. specifically, in 23 moves and 45 steps in the analytical framework, English corpus makes use of 21 moves and 30 steps while the typical articles in Vietnamese counterpart adopt 17 moves and 20 steps. From these findings, interpretations from the perspectives of education and international publication experiences have been presented in order to give insights into the differences in the genre structure of English and Vietnamese research articles. In general, the degree of compliance with the research article genre structure in Vietnamese corpus has not been given adequate attention. Therefore, the thesis provides policy suggestions and practical recommendations for students, lecturers, researchers, higher education institutions and domestic academic journals. structured, higher education institutions need to integrate genre structure of scientific research articles into academic writing courses to equip students with standard knowledge of article structure. In addition, writing training courses for international publications for lecturers should be conducted. Creative and critical thinking skills should also be nurtured and fostered for university students to promote benchmarks in scientific research. Finally, the thesis offers recommendations for economics journal and other disciplines in enhancing the standards, regulations, and formats for genre structure of research articles to gradually establish the prestige and quality of journals domestically and internationally.
- Thesis's major contributions:
Theoretical contributions:
- The thesis is one of the few studies that synthesizes theorized the genre structure of the entire research article as the previous domestic and international studies have merely addressed the genre structure of one or several components in the entire articles.
- The thesis also adds scientific evidence for higher education institutions in Vietnam in formulating the genre structure for presenting discourse organization of research articles, scientific research reports, theses and dissertations in economics field which conform to international standards; At the same time, it provides a scientific basis for establishing a benchmark for genre structure of research articles in domestic academic journals.
Practical contributions:
- The results are valuable reference source for students, post-graduate students, young tutors in economics and other disciplines to approach the standard structure of research articles to write and publish articles in prestigious national and international journals.
- The thesis provides the basis for domestic academic journals to complete the requirements for the structure of research articles according to international standards in order to improve the quality of articles, thereby increasing the ability to be indexed and ranked in world-renowned databases such as Scopus and Web of Science.
- This is the first study on contrasting structure genre of English and Vietnamese research articles in field economics in Vietnam; thus, the practical recommendations drawn from research results are novel and contribute significantly in discourse knowledge in the Vietnamese context.
12. Further research directions:
The thesis makes some suggestions for future research directions as follows:
- First, the application of genre analysis approach to research articles in other fields such as Linguistics, Literature, Information Technology, Education, Mathematics, Agriculture, and Psychology, Law, etc. should be further expanded in the context that higher education institutions in the country are promoting international publications in all disciplines in order to establish their prestige in education and research nationally and internationally.
- Second, other studies can be conducted to compare and contrast the structure of discourse genres in interdisciplinary research articles in order to explore the similarities and differences among disciplines, thereby contributing to knowledge about scientific discourse in a more comprehensive and inclusive manner.
- Third, the thesis also recommends implementing other research pertaining to different other discoure genres in academic writing such as essays, undergraduate graduation papers, post-graduate theses, coursebooks, books, etc. to generate more knowledge about genre structure of these types for the teaching of academic writing courses at undergraduate and post-graduate levels as well as for the study of discourse in academic texts in Linguistics.
13. Thesis-related publications:
1. Pham Thi To Loan (2021), “A contrastive analysis of genre structure in abstracts of English and Vietnamese research articles in economics field”, Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 7(3b), pp. 606-616.
2. Pham Thi To Loan (2021), “Constrastive analysis of rhetorical structure in economics research article Abstract in English and Vietnamese journals”, International Graduate Research Symposium, University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University, pp. 167-176.
3. Pham Thi To Loan, Nguyen Thi Phuong Thuy (2022), “Rhetorical structure of introduction section in English and Vietnamese research articles in Economics field: A contrastive analysis”, Interdisciplinary research in linguistics and language education-VII international conference - Hue University, pp. 349-362.
4. Pham Thi To Loan, Nguyen Thi Phuong Thuy (2022), “Constrastive analysis of genre structure in economics research article Introduction in English and Vietnamese journals”, VNU Journal of Foreign Studies, 38(4), pp. 63-75.
5. Pham Thi To Loan, Nguyen Thi Phuong Thuy (2023), ”Genre structure of Discussion section in undergraduate students' theses”, Ho Chi Minh City Open University Journal of Science -Social Sciences, 18(1), pp. 48-55.
6. Thi To Loan Pham (2023), “Move structure of Results and Discussion chapter in undergraduate theses written by Vietnamese English major students”, In NT Vu, H. Dinh, K. Bui & H. Nguyen (Eds.), English Language Teaching in Vietnam: Reflections, Innovations, and Insights, Eliva Press, pp. 116-134. ISBN: 9994988808
