Lexical bundles in academic discouse
A comparative study of functional use of lexical bundles in native and non-native learner corpora
Keywords:
Functional types, Lexical bundles, Academic discourse, native and non-native learnrs, ICNALEAbstract
The application and consumption of regularly and repeatedly occurring combination of words i.e. lexical bundles perform a central part in educational discourse. There has been quite a limited work done on the comparison between native learners of English and non-native Pakistani learners of English on the usage of functional types of lexical bundles in educational discourse in relation to their regularity and roles. Current research work is directed to explore the maximum recurrently used lexical bundles along with quantitative differences in their occurrence of functional types in academic discourse of Pakistani non-native and native learners of English. It also purposes the comparison and difference between the functional types of lexical bundles found in native and non-native learner corpora. The research took data from ICNALE. It comprises of a corpus of almost two lacs of words consisting of written essays by native and non-native English learners. The investigation involves the identification of functional types of lexical bundles along with their quantitative analysis and qualitative study of function they perform in academic discourse. The “N-Grams” tool in Antconc 3.2.1. is used in extracting the four-word functional lexical bundles from the learner corpora. Findings reveal the overuse of research-and text-oriented functional types of lexical bundles by the non-native learners, while native learners have used participant-oriented types of lexical bundles more than non-native learners in academic discourse.
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