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M.A. Dissertation of Chongqing University LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS LIST OF ABBREVIONS CARS- Create a Research Space EAP-English for Academic Purposes EOP- English for Occupational Purpose ESL- English as a Second Language ESP- English for Specific Purposes L1- first language L2 - second language RA - research article IV M.A. Dissertation of Chongqing University Chapter One Introduction Chapter One Introduction 1.1 Research Background Since the early 1980s, applied linguists and language teachers, especially those concerned with the teaching of ESP and EAP, have shown a great deal of interest in genre-centered approaches to the analysis of written and spoken discourse (Holmes, 1997), especially the academic writing. To a large extent, this interest in genre analysis has been motivated by the need to provide satisfactory models and descriptions of academic and scientific texts, which is helpful to enhance the ability of non-native speaker students to understand the literature in their study fields as well as to produce their own works. Among the three schools in contemporary genre studies, i.e. ESP Genre Analysis, North American New Rhetoric Studies and Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics, ESP Genre Analysis mainly focuses on academic writing, i.e. research articles (RA) (Hyon, 1996). So far, one branch of the previous research that adapted the ESP Genre Analysis approach, has concentrated on grammatical and stylistic aspects of written academic discourse, such as the use of tense and aspect (Burrough-Boenisch, 2003; Hinkel, 2004), modality (Vassileva, 2001), the use and function of adje