A Comparative Analysis of Lexical Bundles Used by Native and Non-Native Scholars

Autor/inn/en	Güngör, Fatih; Uysal, Hacer Hande
Titel	A Comparative Analysis of Lexical Bundles Used by Native and Non-Native Scholars
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 9 (2016) 6, S.176-188 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Comparative Analysis; Teaching Methods; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Phrase Structure; Second Language Instruction; Periodicals; Journal Articles; Writing for Publication; Computational Linguistics; Native Language; Turkish; Verbs; Discourse Analysis; Foreign Countries; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Phrasenstruktur; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Periodical; Journal; Zeitschrift; Fachzeitschrift; Periodikum; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Türkisch; Diskursanalyse; Ausland; Türkei
Abstract	In the recent years, globalization prepared a ground for English to be the lingua franca of the academia. Thus, most highly prestigious international journals have defined their medium of publications as English. However, even advanced language learners have difficulties in writing their research articles due to the lack of appropriate lexical knowledge and discourse conventions of academia. Considering the fact that the underuse, overuse and misuse of formulaic sequences or lexical bundles are often characterized with non-native writers of English, lexical bundle studies have recently been on the top of the agenda of corpus studies. Although the related literature has represented specific genres or disciplines, no study has scrutinized lexical bundles in the research articles that are written in the educational sciences. Therefore, the current study compared the structural and functional characteristics of the lexical-bundle use in L1 and L2 research articles in English. The results revealed the deviation of the usages of lexical bundles by the non-native speakers of English from the native speaker norms. Furthermore, the results indicated the overuse of clausal or verb-phrase based lexical bundles in the research articles of Turkish scholars while their native counterparts used noun and prepositional phrase-based lexical bundles more than clausal bundles. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01