Lexical bundles in native and non-native scientific writing : applying a corpus-based study to language teaching /
This book presents an investigation of lexical bundles in native and non-nativescientific writing in English, whose aim is to produce a frequency-derived, statistically- and qualitatively-refined list of the most pedagogically useful lexical bundles in scientific prose: one that can be sorted and fi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2014]
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Studies in corpus linguistics ;
v. 65 |
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Table of Contents:
- Lexical Bundles in Native and Non-native Scientific Writing; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; 0. Introduction, aims and scope; 1. Introduction; 2. Aims, scope and structure of the volume; Part 1. Lexical bundles in native and non-native scientific writing; 1. Theory and applications of phraseology and lexical bundles; 1. Distributional approaches to phraseology; 2. Lexical bundles; 2.1 Definition and characteristic features; 2.2 Fixedness, variation and compositionality; 2.3 Lexical bundle structures; 2.4 Lexical bundle functions
- 1. Frequency of target bundles2. Structural characteristics of target bundles; 2.1 Noun structures; 2.2 Verb structures; 2.3 Prepositional-phrase fragments; 2.4 Other structures; 2.4.1 Verb or adjective + to-clause fragment; 2.4.2 Verb phrase or noun phrase + that-clause fragment; 2.4.3 Adverbial-clause fragment; 2.4.4 Copula be + adjective phrase; 2.4.5 Anticipatory it + verb or adjectival phrase; 2.4.6 Other adjectival phrases; 2.4.7 Other expressions; 3. Functions of target bundles; 3.1 Multifunctionality of lexical bundles; 3.2 Distribution of target-bundle functions
- 2.5 Rationale for the lexical bundle approach3. Phraseology and academic discourse; 3.1 Phraseological units as markers of register; 3.2 Phraseological units as markers of genre; 3.3 Phraseological units as markers of discipline; 3.4 Phraseological units as markers of academic competence; 4. Phraseology in language teaching and learning; 4.1 Impact of phraseology on fluency and pragmatic competence; 4.2 Resources for the teaching and learning of phraseology; 4.3 Issues of selection and prioritization; 4.4 Phraseology in learner corpora; 4.5 Issues of acquisition and development
- 3.3 Research-oriented bundles3.4 Text-oriented bundles; 3.5 Participant-oriented bundles; 4. Concluding remarks; 4. Target bundles in non-native expert scientific writing; 1. Frequency of target bundles in the non-native corpus; 2. Structural characteristics of target bundles in the non-native corpus; 2.1 Noun structures; 2.2 Verb structures; 2.3 Prepositional-phrase fragments; 2.4 Other structures; 3. Functions of target bundles in the non-native corpus; 3.1 Research-oriented bundles; 3.2 Text-oriented bundles; 3.3 Participant-oriented bundles; 4. Concluding remarks
- 4.6 Issues of classroom practice4.7 Way forward; 2. Investigating lexical bundles in biomedical research writing; 1. Corpus of published scientific writing; 2. Creating and analyzing the list of target lexical bundles; 2.1 Lexical bundle identification; 2.2 Mutual Information score; 2.3 Exclusion criteria; 2.4 Structural classification; 2.5 Functional classification; 2.6 Keyword and prototype analysis; 3. Comparison with the non-native corpus; 3.1 Corpus of non-native scientific writing; 3.2 Analysis of non-native scientific writing; 4. Concluding remarks; 3. Target bundles
- Part 2. Pedagogical applications of the study