THE COMPARISON OF ENGLISH NOMINALIZATION IN ABSTRACT WRITING BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL JOURNAL ARTICLES

Abstract

This research discussed the study of linguistics in comparing the use of English nominalization in writing abstracts for international and national journals. The method research applied in this research was qualitative method. The research objectives were; to find out how to overcome challenges in choosing words in abstract writing and to elaborate the comparison of nominalization of abstract writing in international and national articles. The source of data was taken from five abstract international journal articles and the other five abstracts from national journal articles. In accordance with Mack's theory, this finding showed there were four ways to overcome the challenges in choosing words in abstract writing, namely avoid abbreviations and acronyms, use descriptive words to explain research information, put emphasis words to highlight keywords, and notice the limitation of words used in abstract writing. The next finding discusses about the differences in the use of nominalisation for each journal. The data results show that international journals are more dominant in the use of nominalisation words, namely 96 words and 69 words for national journals. Based on the linguistics functions of the use of nominalization words, the results show that the use of nominalization words used in international journals is appropriate than national journals. This finding concludes that the use of English nominalization in international journals makes the abstract be informative, systematic and scientific.