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Sue Wharton

Ways of constructing knowledge in TESOL research reports: The management of community consensus and individual innovation

This paper centres on published research reports produced by members of the TESOL discourse community. The analysis extends the Hallidayan concept of given/new information from its origins (used for capturing information structure at the clause level) and relates it to the analysis of the macro-structural organisation of TESOL research reports. The pragmatic aspect of given and new is combined with Hoey’s (1983, 2001) Problem-Solution pattern to help demonstrate not only how TESOL research report texts are organised, but also what the pragmatic function of that organisation is at the genre level. Then, a deeper analysis of writer management of certain elements of the Problem-Solution pattern is undertaken; this gives insights into how writers align themselves as members of the TESOL community while simultaneously presenting their own contribution as new and valuable.

IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0019-042X
Volume: 44, 03/2006
Pages: 23 - 48

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