A Corpus-Based Study on the Use of Three-Word Lexical Bundles in the Academic Writing by Native English and Turkish Non-Native Writers

Autor/in	Ucar, Serpil
Titel	A Corpus-Based Study on the Use of Three-Word Lexical Bundles in the Academic Writing by Native English and Turkish Non-Native Writers
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 10 (2017) 12, S.28-36 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Computational Linguistics; Phrase Structure; Teaching Methods; Turkish; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Academic Discourse; Word Frequency; Discourse Analysis; Research Reports; Qualitative Research; Statistical Analysis; Native Speakers; Language Usage; Writing for Publication; Comparative Analysis; Journal Articles; Foreign Countries; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Phrasenstruktur; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Türkisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Discourse; Diskurs; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Diskursanalyse; Research report; Forschungsbericht; Qualitative Forschung; Statistische Analyse; Muttersprachler; Sprachgebrauch; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Ausland; Türkei
Abstract	The utilization of English recurrent word combinations--lexical bundles--play a fundamental role in academic prose (Karabacak & Qin, 2013). There has been highly limited research about comparing Turkish non-native and native English writers' use of lexical bundles in academic prose in terms of frequency, structure and functions of lexical bundles (Bal, 2010; Karabacak & Qin, 2013, Öztürk, 2014). Therefore, this current research was conducted in order to investigate the most frequently used lexical bundles in the academically published articles of Turkish non-native and native speakers of English and to investigate whether there was a significant difference between native and non-native scholars with respect to the frequency, structures and functions of English language lexical bundles. The data were collected from two corpora; 15 scientific articles of native speakers and 15 scientific articles of Turkish advanced writers. The investigation included a quantitative analysis of the use of three-word lexical bundles and a qualitative analysis of the functions and structures they serve. To be more conservative, three-word lexical bundles which occur 40 times per million words and appear in 5 different texts were described a lexical bundle in this current research. The findings revealed that Turkish non-native writers showed underuse and less variation in the use of lexical bundles in their academic prose compared to native speakers. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01