Bundles to beat the band in high-stakes tests: Pedagogical applications of an exploratory investigation of lexical bundles across band scores of the IELTS writing component

Sustaining vocabulary knowledge growth through corpus-generated lists of lexical bundles and keywords in the law of contracts

“…Recently, research on LBs has expanded into new areas. Saadatara, Kiany and Talebzadeh [ 43 ] examined the use of LBs in high-stake tests, demonstrating that high-scoring IELTS takers use more structurally diverse and functionally distinct units than their low-achieving counterparts. To enhance students’ performance in such key tests, a more deliberate approach should be pursued in which multi-word expressions receive as much attention as individual words.…”