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This study analyzed the characteristics of move in dissertation abstracts of three groups(NSD, NNSD-F, NNSD-K). A total of 90 abstracts in the field of applied linguistics were collected and analyzed based on the Pho’s(2008) abstract move analysis framework. The results showed that there was no significant difference regarding the frequency of the moves. However, there were some differences in move patterns: NSD and NNSD-F showed various move patterns, but NNSD-K showed only three dominant move patterns in their dissertation abstracts. Moreover, this study revealed that Move 2, 3, 4 were the most frequent moves in every group. Also, there were a variety of lexical expressions in all three groups' abstracts and they helped all abstracts flow smoothly in their structures. In terms of the tense, simple past tense was most frequently presented in Move 2, 3, 4 and this was the opposite results compared to those of studies on research article abstracts. In case of the text length of abstracts, NNSD-K had the tendency to write abstracts longer than other two groups, but the results revealed that the text length did not affect diversities of move patterns of abstracts. Implications are suggested based on the findings of this study.