10.57647/

A Comparative Corpus-driven Study of Lexical Bundles in Applied Linguistics Research Articles between Native (English) and Non-native (Iranian) Authors

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  • Ali Alizadeh1,
  • Davud Kuhi*1,
  • Yaser Hadidi1,
  1. Department of English Language and Literature, Maragheh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Maragheh, Iran.

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Alizadeh, A., Kuhi, D., & Hadidi, Y. (2024). A Comparative Corpus-driven Study of Lexical Bundles in Applied Linguistics Research Articles between Native (English) and Non-native (Iranian) Authors. Journal of New Trends in English Language Learning (JNTELL), 3(3). https://doi.org/10.57647/
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Abstract

This study examined the use of structures and functions of lexical bundles in scientific
research articles written by native English writers and non-native English writers. To this
end, three-, four--, and five-word lexical bundles were contrastively investigated in the
corpora, which contained 954,615 words. The RAs were then examined structurally by Biber
et al. (1999) and functionally by Hyland’s model (2008). Based on the results, native authors
used more lexical bundles regarding structural classification than non-native authors.
Furthermore, based on the detailed analysis, the authors, no difference in whether they were
native or non-native, used noun phrases with of-phrase fragments with high frequency and
high rate. Regarding LBs’ functions, the results indicated that the highest concentration of
native and non-native corpus is on research-oriented bundles. In general, there was no
significant difference in the frequency of using lexical bundles in terms of functional
classification between native and non-native researchers of soft science. Regarding LBs’
functions, the highest concentration of native and non-native corpus is on text-oriented
bundles.

Keywords

  • Lexical Bundles,
  • Non-native Iranian Writers,
  • Native English Writers
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