1. Full name of doctoral candidate: Pham Thi To Loan 2. Gender: Female
3. Date of birth: July 22, 1984 4. Place of birth: Nghe An
5. Decision on admission of doctoral students: Decision No. 2775/2020/QD-XHNV dated December 31, 2020, of the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
6. Changes in the training process: The thesis title has been adjusted from “Comparison of the structure of Vietnamese and English scientific articles in economics” to “Comparison of the discourse genre structure 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, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
7. Thesis title: A comparative study of the discourse genre structure of English and Vietnamese scientific articles in the field of economics.
8. Specialization: Comparative and Contrastive Linguistics 9. Code: 9229020.03
10. Scientific supervisors: 1. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thi Phuong Thuy
2. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dao Thanh Lan
11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis:
- Research objectives:
This study aims to survey, compare, and contrast to clarify the similarities and differences in the structure of discourse genres in English and Vietnamese scientific articles published in economics journals. Based on this, the study will offer suggestions for language teaching and research for undergraduate students, graduate students, doctoral candidates, young lecturers just starting their research careers, researchers aiming for international publication, higher education institutions, and domestic scientific journals.
- Research subjects:
The subject of this dissertation is the discourse genre structure in English and Vietnamese scientific articles published in domestic and international economics journals.
- Research methodology:
Genre analysis method
+ Comparison method
+ Descriptive method
+ Statistical techniques
- Key results and conclusions:
The study results indicate that both English and Vietnamese corpora utilize a relatively large number of actions and steps within the framework for analyzing the structure of scientific articles to achieve the purposes and functions of the texts. However, the actions and steps present in the English corpora are more prevalent, while the structure of Vietnamese articles tends to omit some important actions and steps that contribute to the success of a scientific article. Specifically, out of 23 actions and 45 steps in the framework for analyzing the structure of scientific articles, the English corpora utilize 21 actions and 30 steps, while the Vietnamese corpora utilizes 17 actions and 20 steps.
The thesis presents explanations from an educational perspective and international publishing experience to provide insightful perspectives on the differences in the discourse structure of English and Vietnamese scientific articles. Generally, the level of adherence to the discourse structure of scientific articles in the Vietnamese corpora has not been given sufficient attention; therefore, the thesis offers policy suggestions and practical recommendations for students, lecturers, researchers, higher education institutions, and specialized journals in Vietnam. Accordingly, higher education institutions should integrate the content of discourse structure of scientific articles into academic writing courses to equip students with standard knowledge of article structure. Furthermore, training in academic writing skills for lecturers, aimed at publishing articles in prestigious domestic and international journals, should be emphasized. For higher education institutions, to achieve standards in research and scientific publications, creative and critical thinking skills need to be nurtured and cultivated in generations of students. Finally, this study also offers recommendations for economic journals, as well as other specialized journals, on improving standards, regulations, and formats for the discourse structure of articles, thereby affirming the prestige and quality of journals both domestically and internationally.
- Novel contributions of the thesis:
In theory:
- This dissertation is one of the few comprehensive studies on the theoretical aspects of the genre structure of a complete article, as previous studies both domestically and internationally have only addressed the genre structure of one or a few components within the main text of the article.
- The dissertation also adds scientific arguments for domestic universities and academies in building the structure of discourse presentation for scientific articles, research reports, theses, and dissertations in economics according to international standards; it also provides scientific arguments on the standard genre structure of research articles for domestic specialized journals.
In practical terms:
- The research results are a valuable reference for students, graduate students, doctoral candidates, and young lecturers in economics and other fields, helping them access the standard structure of a scientific paper to guide their writing and publication in prestigious domestic and international journals.
- The research findings of this thesis will serve as a basis for specialized journals to refine their requirements for the structure of scientific articles according to international standards, thereby improving the quality of articles and increasing the chances of being indexed and ranked in prestigious global databases such as Scopus and Web of Science.
- This is the first study to compare the genre structure of English and Vietnamese scientific articles in the field of economics from a discourse perspective in Vietnam. Therefore, the practical recommendations derived from the research results are novel and make a significant contribution to discourse knowledge in the Vietnamese context.
12. Directions for further research:
The thesis offers several suggestions for future research directions as follows:
- Firstly, the application of the discourse analysis approach to scientific articles to other fields such as Linguistics, Literature, Information Technology, Education, Mathematics, Agriculture, Psychology, Law, etc., needs to be further expanded in the context of higher education institutions nationwide promoting international publications in all training disciplines to affirm their position in training and scientific research domestically and internationally.
Secondly, studies can also focus on comparing and contrasting the structure of discourse genres in interdisciplinary scientific papers to understand the similarities and differences between different fields of study, thereby contributing to a more comprehensive and holistic understanding of scientific discourse.
- Thirdly, the thesis also recommends conducting structural studies of other discourse genres in academic writing such as essays, dissertations, theses, textbooks, books, etc., in order to provide knowledge about discourse structure in these types of texts, serving the teaching of academic writing courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as for academic discourse research in Linguistics.
13. Publications related to the dissertation:
1. Pham Thi To Loan (2021), “Comparison of the structure for creating coherence in English and Vietnamese scientific article abstracts 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), “Comparison of 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 contribute 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 support:
- 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
