COMPARISON OF HEDGING DEVICES IN PUBLISHED RESEARCH ARTICLES BY INDONESIAN AND ENGLISH NATIVE WRITERS: A CORPUS BASED STUDY

This study aims to compare how Indonesian and English Native writers use hedges in their published research articles. The source of data was 40 research articles published in English written by Indonesian and English Native writers. The study investigated three sections of each research article (Introduction, Discussion, and Conclusion) where hedging devices are usually used. To get the hedge frequencies, the data were analysed using concordance program called Ant FileConverter (1.2.1) and AntConc (3.5.0). The types of hedges were categorized based on hedges taxonomy adapted from Selager-Meyer. The result of the study provides the implication that Indonesian scholars need a special instruction especially which focus on hedges proposition.