Structure of Lexical Bundles in Introduction Section of Medical Research Articles

Jalali, Zahra Sadat; Moini, M. Raouf

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.03.473

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“…They are chunks or clusters (Hyland, 2008) that are recurrent sequences of words which are extracted from a given corpus using a computer program (Salazar, 2014). They are a part of a large family of formulaic language (Jalali & Moini, 2014;Jalali, Moini & Arani, 2015) that occurs together (Allan, 2016;Salazar, 2014;Wright, 2019) with certain words.…”

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“…These researchers mentioned that there was a considerable difference between non-native and native academic writings and between articles in different disciplines. Similarly, genre-based lexical bundle usages were discussed by (Wright, 2019;Niu, 2015;Jalali & Moini, 2014). They stated that there were lexical bundle differences between academic writing genres.…”

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Effects of Teaching Lexical Bundles on EFL Studentsâ€™ Abstract Genre Academic Writing Skills Improvement: Corpus-Based Research Design

Birhan

2021

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Lexical bundles are two or more string of words that co-occur frequently in a corpus. Hence, this corpus-based research design study examines the effects of lexical bundles on English as a foreign language learner’s abstract genre academic writing skills, and it also investigates students’ perception towards lexical bundles instruction to enhance their academic writing skills. Hence, frequent lexical bundles were selected from 70 computer science articles. These articles were selected from 7 journals that were published in reputable, indexed, and through representative criteria. Accordingly, sixteen frequent lexical bundles were selected through corpus analysis software (Laurence Anthony’s Antconc software) for the purpose of classroom instruction. The bundles are intended to help computer science students to develop their abstract genre academic writing skills. Students have instructed their academic writing through corpus informed instruction for two months, and the data were gathered through pre and post-tests and questionnaire. The findings indicated that lexical bundles have a positive effect on students’ academic writing skills, particularly abstract genre writing. Besides, the students have a positive perception of the lexical bundle and the instruction to enhance their academic writing skills. Finally, this research calls attention to discipline-oriented lexical bundles since they are crucial for academic writing.

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Section: Literature Review Lexical Bundles In Academic Writingmentioning

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Effects of Teaching Lexical Bundles on EFL Studentsâ€™ Abstract Genre Academic Writing Skills Improvement: Corpus-Based Research Design

Birhan

2021

ijole

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“…Wray (2002) defines a formulaic language as a series of words, both continuous (without being interrupted by other elements) or discontinuous (interrupted by other elements), which is prefabricated (i.e., stored in memory and can be recalled as a single unit when used or spoken) and is not produced or analyzed as separate units. Meanwhile, the research article is a genre that has attracted considerable attention from researchers (Cortes, 2013;Hyland, 2008Hyland, , 2012Jalali & Moini, 2014;Jalilifar et al, 2017;Kwary et al, 2017;Shahriari, 2017). Hyland (2012) states that a published research article is the most discursively crafted and rhetorically machined genre.…”

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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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“…A lexical bundle is a bundle defined as a recurring sequence of three or more words (Biber et al, 1999) functioning as a cohesive device to make a coherent conversation. Majority of studies on lexical bundles derived their data from written register, such as research articles which explore the use of lexical bundles in introduction of research articles (Jalali & Moini, 2014), research abstracts (Ahmadi, Ghamsooly & Fatemi, 2013), aknowledgements (Demirel & Ahmadi, 2013), and lexical bundles in research articles on Biology (e.g., Cardinali, 2015).…”

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Lexical Bundles in Whatsapp Conversation between Native and Non-Native Speakers of English

Fitriati¹,

Wahyuni²

2019

Proceedings of the UNNES International Conference on English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation (ELTLT 2018)

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The paper draws on an investigation on the use of lexical bundles and their functions in WhatsApp conversations between a native and a non-native speaker of English. The aim of this study is to explore the lexical bundles used by the two speakers in order to explain how these bundles contribute to the coherence in the conversations. The study employs the lexical bundle taxonomy by Biber et al. (1999) and the functional types of lexical bundles by Conrad and Biber (2005). In terms of functions, the lexical bundles produced by native and nonnative speakers of English mostly express Stance between the speaker and hearer which includes functions of epistemic stance and attitudinal/modality stance to show intention, desire, ability, obligation, and directive. The Discourse Organizing function is also used, particularly to introduce and elaborate the topic; while, the Referential Expression type is not very much used in the conversation. The pedagogical implication of this study is that a wide variety of lexical bundles to express various functions in communication should be explicitly taught to develop the communicative competence of English language learners.

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Structure of Lexical Bundles in Introduction Section of Medical Research Articles

Cited by 23 publications

References 13 publications

Effects of Teaching Lexical Bundles on EFL Studentsâ€™ Abstract Genre Academic Writing Skills Improvement: Corpus-Based Research Design

Effects of Teaching Lexical Bundles on EFL Studentsâ€™ Abstract Genre Academic Writing Skills Improvement: Corpus-Based Research Design

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

Lexical Bundles in Whatsapp Conversation between Native and Non-Native Speakers of English

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