Writing Abstracts for Bilingual Education Journals

Abstract

The objective of this research is the analysis and definition of the language of abstracts in bilingual education journal papers regarding macro- and micro-structure. The present research involves an experiment based on the analysis of a genre in the field of bilingual education with a corpus of 56 abstracts published in indexed journals. Genre analysis helps determine and reproduce specific forms of language, creating basic rules about their use which enable individuals apply them to real contexts. Results show the most common features shared among the documents analyzed. Discussion of these results focuses on the elaboration of some guidelines on how to write abstracts addressed to bilingual education journal papers. Since the amount of genres is near infinite, these guidelines are actually expected to help researchers in this field write their abstracts in a more successful way.