Genre Analysis of Applied linguistics Research Article Introductions Published in International and Iranian Local Journals

This study aimed to investigate the realizations of verbs’ syntactic and semantic features inmoves of applied linguistics research article introductions published in international andIranian local journals. To this end, a data of 30 research article introductions (15 published inIranian local journals and 15 in high impact international journals) was selected. The researcharticle introductions were analyzed for the move structures using Swales’s CARS (1990)model. The research article introductions were also analyzed for tense, aspect, voice(Syntactic features) and semantic meaning of verbs. The results indicated that simple presentand active voice were the predominant tense and voice in both sets of research articleintroductions. Concerning the semantic meaning of verbs, the results showed that three kindsof semantic meanings of verbs were used more frequently. They are namely mental, activity,and existence or relationship verbs. This study could have implications for novice non-nativewriters in the Applied Linguistics.