The Rhetorical Structure of Research Article Introductions by English Native Speakers in the Australian Journal of Teacher Education. Skripsi.

Rhetorical structure is the description of common structure or pattern of a text which construct the text in sequences. It includes in research article. Research article also has its own structure in how to compose it. The important part of research article is the introduction. Research article introduction give the reader view about the research article content that they want to read. It makes them easy to understand the topic of the research article. The correlation between rhetorical structure and research article introduction is boundary. In order to get a good research article introduction we have to know the structure of the research article introduction. Moreover, if it is written by English native speaker, it will give more useful knowledge to understand the research article introduction by English native speakers since English become their daily language or the first language. I find some research article introductions by English native speaker to be analyzed. The objective of this research is to find out the rhetorical structure of research article introductions by English native speakers in the Australian Journal of Teacher Education. The design of the research is the qualitative content analysis research. The data of this research are the research article introductions by English native speakers. Meanwhile, the data source will be taken from the Australian journal of Teacher Education volume 38. The result of the rhetorical structure of research article introduction by English native speakers in the Australian Journal of Teacher Education; there are 57 sentences Move 1 Step 1, 97 Move 1 Step 2, 60 Move 1 Step 3, 29 Move 2 Step 1A, 2 Move 2 Step 1B, 1 Move 2 Step 1C, 11 Move 2 Step 1 D, 33 Move 3 Step1A, 3 Move 3 Step 1B, 20 Move 3 Step 2, and 3 Move 3 Step3. Based on the result of the research above, the English teacher should have known about this rhetorical structure of research article introduction in order to give a good recommendation to their students about research article. The students should not only read the research article, but also they should know how a good research article based on the rhetorical structure. The readers should read a good research article introduction in order to get easy to understand the research article content