Acquisition of academic Italian as a foreign language : the comparative perspective (models and analysis of abstracts and introductions)

Vol.37,No.2(2016)

Abstract
This study deals with questions regarding the use of English and Italian in academic communication and the questions related to second language writing. It particularly draws attention to the stylistic particularities of academic writing in these two languages, pointing out some of their common and distinguishing features in two genres of academic discourse: the abstract and the introduction of a research article. As far as methodology is concerned, the research is based on genre analysis, and the corpus consists of abstracts and introductions of research articles from the humanities, specifically linguistics and literature. We believe that the knowledge of genre characteristics has the potential to help the students to write academic texts in their target contexts.

Keywords:
academic writing; genre analysis; genre pedagogy; Italian language

Pages:
245–258
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