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T1 English Language Standards in Academic Articles: Attitudes of Peer Reviewers
A1 Hewings, Martin
K1 publicación académica
K1 revisión por pares
K1 comentarios de los evaluadores
K1 lengua inglesa
K1 científicos no nativos del inglés
AB This paper investigates comments on English language in peer reviews of manuscripts sub-mitted to the journal English for Specific Purposes. The source of data is a corpus of 228 peerreviews of papers written by native English speaking (NES) and non-native English speak-ing (NNES) authors. The findings suggest that the reviewers considered English languagestandard to be an important factor in judging papers to be publishable or not. Papers byboth NES and NNES authors attracted comments on English, but the NES-authored pa-pers generally attracted more positive and the NNS-authored papers more negative com-ment. Certain areas of language appeared to be more problematic for NNS authors andothers for NNES authors. Overall, however, the study suggests that we need to look atfactors other than English language standards in submitted papers for an explanation of thelower rate of NNES-authored papers judged by reviewers to be publishable.
PB Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones
SN 2530-8335
YR 2006
FD 2006
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/17190
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/17190
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 18-dic-2024