Lexical Bundles in Native and Non-native Scientific Writing: by Danica Salazar

By Danica Salazar

This ebook provides an research of lexical bundles in local and non-nativescientific writing in English, whose goal is to supply a frequency-derived, statistically- and qualitatively-refined checklist of the main pedagogically precious lexical bundles in medical prose: person who might be taken care of and filtered through frequency, key note, constitution and serve as, and comprises contextual details similar to diversifications, genuine examples and utilization notes. the 1st a part of the volumediscusses the construction of this record in response to a multimillion-word corpus of biomedical examine writing and divulges the constitution and features of lexical bundles and their position in powerful clinical verbal exchange. A comparative research of a non-native corpus highlights non-native scientists’ problems’ inemploying lexical bundles. the second one a part of the quantity explores pedagogical functions and gives a chain of training actions that illustrate how EAP academics or fabrics designers can use the record of lexical bundles of their perform.

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In addition to traditional paper dictionaries, new types of electronic and Internet-based reference tools have recently become available. Currently in development is the Louvain EAP Dictionary (LEAD), a web-based EAP dictionary and writing resource designed for non-native users. Apart from the rich descriptions of non-technical words used to perform key functions in academic discourse, this dictionary offers both semasiological and onomasiological access and an innovative customization system that automatically adapts content to users’ disciplines and mother-tongue backgrounds (Granger & Paquot 2009b).

Although, as Hyland (2012, 152) remarks, lexical bundles and the automated, frequency-driven way in which they are extracted provide limited information on the psycholinguistic processing and acquisition of these units, their “recurrence in multiple texts by different users […] suggests at least some perceptual salience among users and conventionalization within a particular discourse community”. In this way, lexical bundles can give insight into the characteristic phraseology of specific contexts of language use, such as the scientific research genre with which this study is concerned.

ICLE contains over three million words of essay writing by advanced learners of English as a foreign language from a wide range of mother-tongue backgrounds, including French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Finnish, Czech, Japanese, Chinese, Polish and Russian (Granger, 2003). The ICLE project is coordinated by the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics of the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium, but it is actually a collaborative effort among several universities in different parts of the world.

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