A Contrastive Analysis of Halliday’s Theme System in Indonesian and English-Native Abstracts

This study seeks to investigate the thematic features of research article abstracts written by Indonesian and English-Native speakers in language education learning. With a huge interest international publication among Indonesians, many go for academic journals that have standard style native English language. Thus, lexical patterns manuscript must meet criteria make possible, otherwise is not likely be published. To capture this, 60 (from 30 English-native authors) were chosen taken from several as corpus this study. Based on Halliday’s SFL model, qualitatively analyzed their Textual meanings. The results indicate themes are specifically manifested distinguishable Indonesians. findings can yield benefits teachers, students, academics improve quality advance submission leading reputable journals.