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Unlocking the Mysteries of Academic Writing: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Lexical Bundles in L2 English for Engineering Students

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Barbara Wing Yee Siu; Muhammad Afzaal; Hessah Saleh Aldayel; Samantha Curle – SAGE Open, 2024

This study examines the use of lexical bundles in reports produced by university-level L2 English writers in civil and environmental engineering (CEE). The corpus consists of 119 reports, and the study compares the use of different types of lexical bundles (3-word, 4-word, and 5-word) in high-scoring and low-scoring papers. The results show that…

Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing (Composition), Phrase Structure, Language Usage