Safnil Arsyad, Syahrul Ramadhan, Husnul Hakim
The goal of this research is to compare and contrast between article titles in the English education field authored by Indonesian scholars published in local journals and those authored by foreign authors published in high-impact foreign journals. Two hundred and ninety eight article titles from five different Indonesian-accredited local journals and five hundred and twelve article titles from five different high-impact foreign journals form the corpus of this research. These journals were purposively selected based on several criteria, such as publication place, field of discipline, and the article authors. The analyses were manually done on the titles’ length, linguistic and content features following the frameworks suggested by Cheng et al. (2012) and Xiang and Li (2019). The findings show that the article titles in high-impact foreign journals are slightly longer than those in local journals, local writers use nominal construction and verb-ing phrase types more frequently than high-impact foreign writers do; foreign writers use full sentences and prepositional phrases more frequently than the local journal writers do, and high-impact foreign journals use topic-only type of titles more frequently than in local journals do. The similarities are that nominal and compound constructions are the most dominant title types while topic-only and method types are the most dominant content features in both sets of article titles. The conciseness and preciseness of the information contained in the article titles are other important title features, future studies should investigate these aspects in the same or different fields. © 2024, Fakultas Ilmu Budaya Universitas Andalas. All rights reserved.
Doctoral Program of Applied Linguistics, Bengkulu University, Bengkulu, Indonesia; Indonesian Department, Universitas Negeri Padang, West Sumatera, Indonesia; English Education Program, STKIP Al-Azhar Diniyyah, Jambi, Indonesia
