Lexical Bundles in Thesis Abstracts by L1 Chinese Learners of English and U.S. Students
| Autor: | Meng Lyu, Roger W. Gee |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Liberal arts education First language 05 social sciences Phrase structure rules Language and Linguistics Linguistics Education Type–token distinction 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Documentation Cross-cultural 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Computational linguistics 0305 other medical science Psychology Contrastive linguistics |
| Zdroj: | English Language Teaching. 13:141 |
| ISSN: | 1916-4750 1916-4742 |
| DOI: | 10.5539/elt.v13n1p141 |
| Popis: | The general question this research investigates concerns the difference between the use of lexical bundles in a corpus of abstracts for theses in the liberal arts written by Chinese undergraduate students and a corpus of abstracts written by American master's degree students. The undergraduate abstracts were first written in Chinese and then translated in to English at a medium-sized university in China. The master’s degree theses abstracts were downloaded from an online database. It was found that there were differences in the types and tokens of lexical bundles in the two corpora with few shared bundles. There were fewer differences in the structural characteristics and in the functions of the lexical bundles found in the two corpora.Specific pedagogical recommendations are made, as well as implications regarding methodology in future research. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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