| Abstrak/Abstract |
In this corpus-based study, we address the issue of authorial presence in English research articles (RAs) by native and non-native English scholars or writers in the field of second language writing. Our purposes are to compare the frequencies of authorial presence and to examine discourse functions of authorial presence in the native and non-native English scholars’ RAs. To achieve these purposes, 48 RAs were collected from two Scopus-indexed journals, namely Journal of Second Language Writing and Assessing Writing. Our finding suggests that native and non-native English scholars are different in terms of the degree of visibility in which native English writers are more visible than their non-native counterparts in their RAs. Furthermore, our functional analysis of authorial presence indicates that native English writers use more self-references for different purposes such as to describe research procedures, show the organization of the texts, but fewer selfreferences to guide readers through the texts than their non-native English peers. These differences might be caused by the idea of writer-responsible culture in native English writers’ RAs, and international publication context in non-native English writers’ RAs. Besides, these findings may be invaluable to material designs in English writing, especially in Indonesia, to assist students as novice writers to consider their explicit presence in their RAs. |
