Introduction Advertisements, were considered as a part of promotional genres (Bhatia, 1993), aim to be persuasive and gain consumers’ attention and awareness (Wells et al., 2000) which make the study of advertising; mostly focusing on the use of language (Vaičenonienė, 2006; Zhu,2006; Rahim, 2013; Ke & Wang, 2013; Emodi,2011; Phạm,2011; Karsita & Apriana, A, 2012; Laviosa, 2005 and Dayag, 2008). Genre analysis that was proposed by Swales(1990) are also become the interest of researchers in the field of promotional genres such as sales promotion letters (Vergaro, 2004) and Company brochure (Nielsen, 2001) but shown a little in advertisings; especially medical advertising which related to ESP. As the previous research shown the same concern about teaching EFL in ESP area, this study will provide some understanding in move analysis and word choices in Dental equipment advertisings in Premium Practice Dentistry Magazine as a resource and sample in teaching EFL in English for Advertising which relate to medical area. This study aims to identify moves and steps and to investigate word choices found in dental equipment advertisings.
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Karsita, V., & Apriana, A.
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