Lexical bundles (LBs) are indispensable building blocks and essential constituents of academic discourse. The appropriate utilization the lexical bundle’s approach can effectively enhance students’ understanding LBs in various genres have extensively been studied concerning written spoken language. However, less research has conducted to explore occurrence, nature, frequency Pakistani discourse...

The art of persuasive speaking or writing in English academic settings depends on using multi-word expressions, also known as clusters, collocations, lexical bundles, to a large extent. They are discipline-specific prefabricated word combinations that statistically tend appear together. However, many novice foreign writers have difficulty appropriate discipline-bound which has made numerous app...

Abstract This article seeks to contribute the body of research on formulaicity academic written English by adopting a text-internal perspective use lexical bundles across four main rhetorical sections (i.e. Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion) articles in public health. The corpus linguistic approach was adopted explore section-coded 200 papers published high impact journals with aim iden...

We evaluated the hypothesis that listeners can generate expectations about upcoming input using anticipatory deaccenting, in which the absence of a nuclear pitch accent on an utterance-new noun is licensed by the subsequent repetition of that noun (e.g. Drag the SQUARE with the house to the TRIangle with the house). The phonemic restoration paradigm was modified to obscure word-initial segmenta...

Abstract Lexical bundles are highly frequent and functionally significant in written academic discourse. Many studies have explored lexical through a disciplinary lens, but their findings not typically incorporated into published L2 teaching-learning materials. As result, there number of challenges facing teachers who want to include focus on writing instruction at tertiary level. This paper de...