Lexical Bundles in Indonesian and English Undergraduate Thesis Abstracts

Samodra, Maria Caroline; Pratiwi, Vincensia Dian Ratna

doi:10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.35

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“…Students used lexical bundles as discourse organizers and referential expressions in the introduction part. On the other side, Samodra & Pratiwi (2018) identified three and four-word combinations in undergraduate thesis abstracts of Indonesian and English. They found that research-oriented bundles dominated the text.…”

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“…In theses, students can use lexical bundles based on its structure and function, which may vary in every part or chapter. Functionally, research-oriented lexical bundles are the biggest portion in the abstracts of student theses (Samodra & Pratiwi, 2018). Meanwhile, in the different part of student theses, Findings and Discussion section, Wachidah et al (2020) concluded that text-oriented function is the most common lexical bundles based on physical data collection.…”

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“…Guiling (2015) studied word sequences in the introduction section of International and Chinese students research theses. Samodra & Pratiwi (2018) identified three and fourword combinations in undergraduate thesis abstracts of Indonesian and English. Wachidah et al (2020) used non-corpus approach to investigate word combinations that occurred in the Findings and Discussion Section of ten randomized graduate theses.…”

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English Lexical Bundles in the Graduate Theses: The Frequency, Structure and Distribution

Faqih

Harjanto

2022

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Lexical bundles are one of the important characteristics of academic discourse which tell readers to know whether the writer is professional or novice. Inevitably, studies on lexical bundles in scientific essays are important to do. This study identifies the most frequent, structural characteristics, and the functional categorization of lexical bundles in the Master Theses in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), specifically in the Findings and Discussion section. There were 651.083 words from 74 different theses compiled to create the corpus by using Antconc 3.5.8. The results found 117 different lexical bundles and the sequences ‘the result of the’ and ‘on the other hand’ dominate the section. Noun phrase + of structure which covers one third of overall forms in the corpus were the most lexical bundles’ structural types in the findings and discussion section followed by other noun phrase structures (22% out of overall bundles). Functionally, research-oriented bundles (45% of overall bundles) were the most frequent ones followed by text-oriented (40%) and the least frequent bundles were participant-oriented. Reported findings are further discussed with related theories.

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English Lexical Bundles in the Graduate Theses: The Frequency, Structure and Distribution

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Harjanto

2022

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“…As for the research on Indonesian lexical bundles, so far to our knowledge, it has not much been conducted. Samodra and Pratiwi (2018) investigated and compared lexical bundles of Indonesian and English on undergraduate thesis abstracts. They found that the Indonesian lexical bundles were dominated by phrase penelitian ini 'this research' and English bundles were dominated by the phrase this research 'penelitian ini'.…”

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Indonesian lexical bundles in research articles: Frequency, structure, and function

Budiwiyanto

Suhardijanto

2020

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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Recent studies show that lexical bundles in English are pervasively found in academic discourse. In addition, the characteristics of lexical bundles found vary and differ across registers and genres. Nevertheless, it is still interesting to carry out in languages other than English. This study aims to discover the characteristics of Indonesian lexical bundles that cover frequency, structure, and function in research articles. This study adopted a mixed-method. Identification of the lexical bundle was carried out using WordSmith 7.0 on a corpus comprising 3,125,546 words, taken from 1126 texts, and consisting of six disciplines. With a frequency threshold of 40 per million words and a minimum distribution of 5 texts, 197 lexical bundles have been obtained, consisting of three- to six-word bundles with a total occurrence of 51,813 times. In terms of structure, the incomplete structure is dominating the bundles by 78.7%, with a total frequency of occurrence 38,749 times. This research finds that the pattern of lexical bundles can be classified into five types: noun-based, prepositional-based, verb-based, adjective-based, and clause-based bundles. Lexical bundles in research articles are generally clause-based (49.2%). This indicates that Indonesian lexical bundles vary in structure. The use of clause fragments and passive verbs are the main features in this genre. In terms of the discourse function, research-oriented bundles are the functions that are commonly used, while participant-oriented bundles are the least. Each discourse function has its own structural characteristics. It is also found that one lexical bundle can have two functional categories. These findings contribute to a better understanding of the characteristics of written academic discourse. From the pedagogical point of view, the ﬁndings can be used as learning material for both native and non-native speakers.

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Hypes in undergraduate thesis abstracts by Indonesian students across years

Ishak,

Basthomi,

Yannuar

2024

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Previous studies showed that as a result of intense competition to succeed in academic pursuits such as publishing research papers and securing grants, promotional language known as hypes are pervasive in academic texts. This paper investigates hypes in a corpus of undergraduate thesis abstracts written by Indonesian English learners in a span of ten years, from 2011 to 2020. Taking a corpus-based approach, it examines the extent to which hypes are used in the thesis abstracts, including their linguistic manifestations, frequencies over the years, and the values they promote. We found hypes in all five moves of thesis abstracts, but they were most frequent in the introduction, in which they emphasized the importance and novelty of the research and stress the urgency of the research problems. In the span of the ten years, the frequencies of hypes generally increase, indicating the students’ awareness of the need to convince thesis supervisors, board of examiners, and their colleagues and the efforts to stand out in a competitive academic landscape. Important, investigate, and reveal were the most frequent hype words over the years and their instances suggest a growing emphasis on significance, a stronger commitment to evidence-based research, and desire to contribute new and concrete findings.

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Lexical Bundles in Indonesian and English Undergraduate Thesis Abstracts

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English Lexical Bundles in the Graduate Theses: The Frequency, Structure and Distribution

English Lexical Bundles in the Graduate Theses: The Frequency, Structure and Distribution

Indonesian lexical bundles in research articles: Frequency, structure, and function

Hypes in undergraduate thesis abstracts by Indonesian students across years

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