On the other hand: Lexical bundles in academic writing and in the teaching of EAP

Corpus linguistics has demonstrated that language-in-use involves repetition of fixed and semi-fixed multiword combinations. Language-in-use also involves the use of formulaic patterns that can run from one word to many words. Currently, much of the reported research focuses on lexical bundles. To find out how lexical bundles function across different disciplinary areas in universities, the analysis reported here started with the creation of a list of lexical bundles used in arts, commerce, law, and science (each made up of seven subject areas) in a corpus written academic English. The use of the bundles in each of these four disciplinary areas was analyzed and compared to published results of similar data. This process led to a short but powerful list of 21 four-word lexical bundles that occur across these four disciplines. The discussion of the results of this search for widely used lexical bundles leads to a consideration of challenges in taking lexical bundle data into the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) classroom. The

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