This present study investigates the most frequently used lexical bundles in argumentative essays written by L1 English and L2 Taiwanese undergraduate students and compares the use of high-frequency lexical bundles between the two groups. The data were drawn from the ICNALE (International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of English) (Ishikawa, 2013), from which two sub-corpora were compiled: ICNALETW with 400 essays produced by L2 writers from Taiwan and ICNALE-EN as a comparable dataset with 400 essays contributed by native English speakers. Based on the structural and functional taxonomy proposed by Biber et al. (1999), the forms and functions of four-word lexical bundles used by L1 and L2 students were manually annotated and analyzed. The findings reveal that among the top 100 most frequent lexical bundles identified from the two sub-corpora, 16 lexical bundles are shared by L1 and L2 student writers and that through structural and functional analyses, both L1 and L2 writers’ lexical bundles exhibit a similar tendency, with a predominance of verb-based phrases and stance related expressions. The findings presented in this study suggest pedagogical implications for the instruction of formulaic language in tertiary-level academic writing.
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Abstract Introduction Literature Review Data and Methodology Corpus Data Identification of Lexical Bundles Analysis of Lexical Bundles Results and Discussion High-Frequency Lexical Bundles Used by L1 and L2 Writers Structures of the High-Frequency Lexical Bundles Used by L1 and L2 Student Writers Functions of the High-Frequency Lexical Bundles Used by L1 and L2 Student Writers Concluding Remarks The Authors References Appendices
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간행물
간행물명
The Journal of AsiaTEFL
간기
계간
pISSN
1738-3102
eISSN
2466-1511
수록기간
2004~2026
등재여부
SCOPUS,KCI 등재
십진분류
KDC 740DDC 420
이 권호 내 다른 논문 / The Journal of AsiaTEFL Vol.23 No.2