Researchers use four moves to show how their work is important, relevant, and novel: (1) Explain the significance of the research area, (2) Describe the status quo (current state of research) in the field, (3) Identify a " gap " in that research, and (4) Fill that gap with your project. This handout offers examples to highlight possible lexical bundles used to complete each move. Here, you shou...

Lexical bundles, as building blocks of discourse, play vital roles in helping members from the same academic community achieve successful communication and disseminate sustainable disciplinary knowledge. However, little attention has been paid to lexical bundles postgraduate writing. Drawing on Biber et al.’s (1999) structural taxonomy Hyland’s (2008a) functional taxonomy, we identified compare...

Researchers use four moves to show how their work is important, relevant, and novel: (1) Explain the significance of the research area, (2) Describe the status quo (current state of research) in the field, (3) Identify a " gap " in that research, and (4) Fill that gap with your project. This handout offers examples to highlight possible lexical bundles used to complete each move. Here, you shou...

Lexical bundles studies are still limited in relation to the use of verb phrase-based bundles, specifically passive forms academic writing. This study reveals lexico-grammatical patterns and functional categories 409,373-word Malaysian Polytechnics Electronic Engineering Learner Corpus (MyPolyEELC) comparison British Academic Written English (BAWE) 29,530-word sub-corpus. The Sketch Engine lexi...

Mastering writing has always proved an almost insurmountable barrier to EFL learners. In an attempt to alleviate problems advanced EFL learners have with writing, this study aimed at investigating the effect of scaffolded instruction through writing frames constructed from extended prefabricated lexical bundles. 40 female advanced English students, selected out of a population of 65, were rando...

Corpus linguistics has been in the spotlight for the last decade, with the usage of modern computers and technologies deeper understanding of languages can be obtained. Corpus linguistics helps language teaching for acquiring a better view for language. Language teachers will know what sequence of words and patters tend to co-occur. Unlike previous enormous lists of words which students were fo...