An investigation of lexical bundles in Electrical Engineering introductory textbooks and ESP textbooks

Lin, Chen

doi:10.22215/etd/2008-07668

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“…While the results of Schmitt et al's 2004 test showed no link between prefabricated status and frequency of occurrence, these results have been disputed by Chen (2008), who believes that "the researchers mixed the modes in the research design, which has negatively affected the effectiveness of this study" (Chen, 2008, p. 49…”

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“…WordSmith Tools was originally released in 1996, and as of late 2010 is now in its 5 iteration. Over this period of time, the program has grown into a well-accepted and widely used program that has been put to use by numerous researchers looking at a variety of linguistic features in the corpora they use in their studies (Chen 2010, Rachel 2009Gabrielatos, 2007;Hyland, 2008, etc). 5…”

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“…Through the use of computer aided corpus analysis, many interesting and important discoveries have been made in a variety of areas within linguistics and applied language studies. In a 2010 study of the lexical bundles in Electrical Engineering introductory textbooks and English for Specific Purposes (ESP) textbooks, it was revealed that ESP textbooks misrepresent target language use (Chen 2010). In another corpus-based study of academic writing, it was shown that both proficient college writers and professional writers used discourse structuring lexical bundles with greater frequency than non-proficient college writers (Levy, 2003).…”

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“…Although corpus size is important to the representativeness of a corpus, anyone compiling a corpus must make sure to follow their pre-defined sampling frame to ensure only appropriate texts are included. While past analysis of lexical bundles has often involved the use of large-scale corpora consisting of hundreds of thousands, and even millions of words, valuable analysis has also been obtained using much smaller corpora Howarth (1996), Chen (2008). In addition to these two examples, Partington (1998) (Partington 1998, p. 5).…”

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“…Following the publication of this statement in 1991, numerous corpus linguistic researchers (Chen 2010;Cortes 2006;Levy 2003) and psycholinguists (Schmitt, Grandage, Adolphs 2004;Underwood, Schmitt, Galpin 2004) have chosen to place formulaic language at the centre of their studies, contributing to a growing recognition of the importance of this aspect of language.…”

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Single and multi-word unit vocabulary in university tutorials and laboratories: Evidence from corpora and textbooks

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Dang

Mukai

2017

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

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Single and multi-word unit vocabulary in university tutorials and laboratories: Evidence from corpora and textbooks Small-group academic interactions, such as tutorials and laboratory sessions, do not often feature in vocabulary or English for Academic Purposes (EAP) research. Yet across many disciplines in tertiary education, students are required to attend and participate in these speaking and listening events. EAP students need to be prepared for them, and their textbooks should help them prepare also. The present study included interview data from lecturers and students which identified specific issues with speaking in small groups in university; corpus-based analysis of tutorials and laboratory sessions which showed large amounts of high frequency vocabulary; and an EAP/ESP textbook analysis showed little focus on vocabulary in tutorials and nothing on laboratories. A total of 176 phrases were suggested in three textbooks as being useful for expressions for speaking in small groups. An analysis of these phrases in the corpus showed that three quarters of these phrases did not appear in the laboratory corpus and two thirds did not appear in the tutorial corpus. Finally, lexical patterns from the corpus were identified and categorised in the same way as existing lists of multiword units in spoken academic English. Implications for pedagogy and materials design are followed by suggestions for future research. 1.Introduction English for Academic Purposes (EAP) research has focused predominantly on writing for the university (Skyrme, 2010), with some attention in terms of academic speaking focused mostly on lectures (Feak, 2013), particularly with regard to discourse in lectures (Jordan, 1997) and student problems with understanding content in lectures (Basturkmen, 2016; Crawford Camiciottoli, 2010). Student presentations have been the focus of some research (e.g., Hincks, 2003), and are an area of concern for second language speakers of English (Kim, 2006). Lectures and student presentations are mostly one-way, in that one speaker tends to hold the floor. Basturkmen (2016) notes that there is limited research into academic speaking which involves interaction between speakers, such as between lecturers and students or students and students. This form of 'dialogic

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Functional Types of Lexical Bundles in Reading Texts of Malaysian University English Test: A Corpus Study

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Keong

2015

GEMA Online

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It is widely claimed that many university students were found to be unprepared for the reading demands placed upon them. To provide students with an understanding of the features of the discourses they may encounter, this study investigates lexical bundles (LBs) used in the reading passages of Malaysian University English Test (MUET), a compulsory entrance examination for tertiary education. More specifically it aims to compare and contrast the functional types of LBs found in arts and science-based reading passages. A specialised corpus of MUET test papers made up of only the reading passages categorised into two main traditional disciplines; arts and science was built using WordSmith Tools Version 5. The lists of LBs of the identified disciplines were generated using WordSmith Tools Version 5. The generated data was then analysed qualitatively based on Hyland's (2008) Functional Taxonomy. Findings revealed that although the number of LBs in both disciplines shows significant difference, many similar LBs are found. Science-based passages employ more research-based LBs whereas arts-based texts employ more participant-oriented LBs. These findings seemed to confirm that the functions of LBs are specific to particular disciplines. Hence, explicit teaching of LBs should be considered in schools and two separate sets of MUET reading tests where the first comprises of texts adopted from the scientific and technological context while the other made up of texts from the social sciences should be designed to accommodate both arts and science stream pre-university students.

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An investigation of lexical bundles in Electrical Engineering introductory textbooks and ESP textbooks

Cited by 10 publications

References 42 publications

Lexical bundles in university EAP exam writing samples : CAEL test essays

Lexical bundles in university EAP exam writing samples : CAEL test essays

Single and multi-word unit vocabulary in university tutorials and laboratories: Evidence from corpora and textbooks

Functional Types of Lexical Bundles in Reading Texts of Malaysian University English Test: A Corpus Study

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