Lexical bundles are frequent word combinations that commonly appear in different registers. They have been the subject of much research in the area of corpus linguistics during the last decade. While most previous studies of bundles have mainly focused on variations in the use of these word combinations across different registers and a number of disciplines, not much research has been done to e...

Currently, enhancement of doctoral education performance is becoming one the central tasks for state policy in field science and education. In 2013 – 2015 Russian experienced radical transformations aimed to increase programs enhance quality dissertations. First, moved towards structured (educational) model. Second, norms rules work dissertation boards changed significantly. The purpose this st...

S AS A GENRE IN ACADEMIC WRITING Academic writing is always considered to be purely objective, impersonal and informational, designed to disguise the author and deal directly with facts. This objectivity in academic writing, however, has been challenged by researchers (Biber, 2006; Charles, 2006; Hunston, 1994, 2004; Hyland, 2000 & 2002; Hyland and Tse, 2004), because academic writing is obviou...

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the scientific research in educational sciences as almost all aspects of life since it broke out China late 2019. Research English Language Teaching (ELT) run across several problems, much like other science domains. Researchers may have encountered difficulties while trying to reach volunteers their studies due psychological or physiological complications. On...