This study examines rhetorical moves and their linguistic realizations including linguistic
complexity in applied linguistics abstracts. Informed by a genre-approach move analysis …

This study aims to investigate the text difficulty of the reading materials of Korean middle
school English textbooks with Coh-Metrix, a software developed by the Institute for Intelligent …

Over the last decade, research on the quality of EFL students' English academic writing has
increased. However, research on EFL students' academic writing that incorporates …

Interpersonal metafunction is an important concept when describing interactions in terms of
responding to the act of giving or demanding goods, services, or information (Halliday and …

In systemic functional linguistics, nominalization represents a prominent type of grammatical
metaphor, but the identification of nominalization as nominalizing metaphor remains a …

The research examined the use of one grammatical metaphor (hereafter GM) syndrome
frequently found in Indonesian language research articles (hereafter RAs). This syndrome …

Teaching materials are significant items that are unique and specific. Therefore, the
selections should be relevant to students' proficiency. This research aimed (1) to disclose …

This study investigates the progression of text complexity based on Systemic Functional
Linguistics theory. Being largely qualitative, this study analyzed three consecutive textbooks …

Following the implementation of the new English curriculum in line with the Common
European Framework of Reference (CEFR), English textbooks in Malaysia have been …

It is possible to assess the complexity of text to determine the level of lexical density (LD)
and grammatical intricacy (GI). This study seeks to discover how much complexity can be …