Browsing by Subject "Learner corpus"
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Lexical bundles in learner and expert academic writing
(Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature, 2019)Lexical bundles (LBs) have been described as the ‘building blocks of discourse’; in addition to being highly frequent in writing and reducing processing time for readers and writers, they also perform ... -
Linking or delinking of ideas? The use of adversative linking adverbials by advanced EFL learners
(Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada, 2020)This paper explores the use of adversative Linking Adverbials (LAs) in the academic writing of advanced English Foreign Language (EFL) learners with different linguistic backgrounds. The learner corpus ... -
Reflexive metadiscourse in a corpus of Spanish bachelor dissertations in EFL
(Research in Corpus Linguistics, 2018)Academic English has often been described as a reader-oriented discourse, in which the structure, objectives and claims are made explicit and carefully framed. Metadiscourse markers help to build coherence ...