The findings revealed that moves 1 (situating the research), 2 (presenting the research), and 3 (describing the methodology) are frequently included in the conference abstracts, whereas moves 4 (summarizing the results) and 5 (discussing the research) can be less frequent. It is concluded that this persuasive writing genre possesses 3 obligatory or strongly prototypical moves and 2 optional ones. | A MOVE ANALYSIS OF CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS - PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES Cao Thi Hong Phuong* English Faculty, Hanoi National University of Education, 136 Xuan Thuy, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam Received 13 April 2018 Revised 27 July 2018; Accepted 30 July 2018 Abstract: This current paper presents the findings of move analysis of conference abstracts from the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL). Reviewing different core perspectives of move analysis such as Biber et al. (2007); Swales (1981, 1990); Santos (1996), the paper employed suitable approaches namely Biber et al. (2007) for move identification and Santos (1996) for the analysis of moves in order to examine common linguistic features identified in the moves that are used to serve the social and communicative purpose of conference abstracts. The findings revealed that moves 1 (situating the research), 2 (presenting the research), and 3 (describing the methodology) are frequently included in the conference abstracts, whereas moves 4 (summarizing the results) and 5 (discussing the research) can be less frequent. It is concluded that this persuasive writing genre possesses 3 obligatory or strongly prototypical moves and 2 optional ones. Finally, some pedagogical implications are derived from the findings to inform further practice with regard to teaching and learning English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in second and foreign language learning contexts. Keywords: move analysis, conference abstracts, applied linguistics, teaching and learning EAP 1. Introduction 1 Move analysis is used to explore rhetoric structures, language use and text organization of a particular genre. Biber et al. (2007) asserted that the goal of move analysis is to illustrate the communicative purposes of given texts by classifying the organizational patterns. This paper discusses a move analysis of eight conference abstracts in applied linguistics .
