A Comparative study of the use of parallelism in phd theses’ abstracts written by english native speakers and Algerian speakers

Abstract

The ability to communicate effectively, appropriately and academically in the written form is necessary to gain language proficiency and to reach a considerable educational level. Parallelism is one of the linguistic concepts that academic writing carries. The current study attempts to investigate the way parallelism is used in PhD dissertations abstracts of Algerians and English natives and to compare its use in PhD dissertations abstracts of English natives and Algerians. Quantitative and qualitative method approaches are used. The use of parallelism of abstracts by English native speakers and Algerian speakers was divided into four types which are phonological, syntactic, lexical and semantic parallelism, and theses were selected randomly on the basis that they are under the English language specialization. Parallelism in the abstracts written by English native speakers and Algerian speakers was manually analyzed, and the data was inspected via the statistical software Jamovi to discover the differences between them. The first research question in this study is about the extent of the use of parallelism by natives and Algerians, and the second question about the similarities and differences between English native speakers and Algerian speakers in using parallelism. Finally, the results showed that there is no significant difference between English natives and Algerians in terms of the use of parallelism in their PhD dissertations abstracts.