A review of journal (Verbs in Applied Linguistics Research Article)

Good  day everyone, today I will do a review for a journal entitle “Verbs in Applied Linguistics Research Article Introductions: Semantic and syntactic analysis” of Abdollah Mohsenzadeh, M.A., Department of English, Sepidan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sepidan, Iran.

This study aims to investigate the semantic and syntactic features of verbs used in the introduction section of Applied Linguistics research articles published in Iranian and international journals. In this journal the writer showed the fact and table of data in the frequency and percentage of tense  type and aspects
The method he used are :
-Corpus which carried out using a corpus of 20 RAIs published in Iranian local journals and in ISI international journals: 10 RAs were selected from two Applied Linguistics journals published by Elsevier, which are indexed in Thomson Reuters. These journals are English for Academic Purposes and English for Specific Purposes.
-Analytical framework which in the use of verb in RAIs to analyse the semantic meaning of main verb.
►Activity verbs
►Communication verbs
►Mental verbs
►Verbs of existence or relationship
►Verbs of facilitation or causation
►Verbs of simple occurrence
►Aspectual verbs
-Procedure
In order to analyse the syntactic and semantic structures of the data, the following procedures were performed. First, the RAs were selected from the target journals. Second, the RAI sections were extracted from the selected RAs. Third, the data were analysed for tense, aspect and voice. Fourth, the main verbs were analysed for their semantic meanings. Fifth, a sample of eight RAIs was checked by two experts in the area of Applied Linguistics, in order to increase of reliability and validity of analysis. Sixth, the findings were tabulated and analysed.

The results showed that simple present is the predominant tense and aspect in both sets of RAIs, Those are RAIs written by native speaker and RAIs written by persian writers.

This study investigated the semantic and syntactic features of verbs used in the RAIs of Applied Linguistics RAs published in Iranian local journals and ISI international journals. The results concerning syntactic structure indicated that in both groups of RAIs, the simple present was the predominant tense.