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dc.contributor.authorLi, Liangen_NZ
dc.contributor.authorFranken, Margareten_NZ
dc.contributor.authorWu, Shaoqunen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-12T21:18:40Z
dc.date.available2018en_NZ
dc.date.available2019-02-12T21:18:40Z
dc.date.issued2018en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationLi, L., Franken, M., & Wu, S. (2018). Sentence initial bundles: A comparative study between Chinese master’s L2 theses and published writing. Asian ESP Journal, 14(7.1), 129–162.en
dc.identifier.issn1833-2994en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/12323
dc.description.abstractLexical bundles, like recurrent multi-word combinations, act as discourse frames in a register and so are potentially significant as markers of expertise. The present study compared sentence initial lexical bundles (i.e. bundles at the beginning of sentences) in 43 Chinese Master’s theses written in English and 85 published research articles written by L1 or advanced L2 writers of English in terms of their frequency, grammatical structures and related discourse functions. The Chinese Master’s L2 texts showed a number of distinctive features, including but not restricted to an overuse of general nouns, pronoun it and sentence connectors, and an absence of shell nouns, anticipatory-it and some less transparent bundles. This paper discusses some of the possible reasons for these findings and indicates a need for pedagogic attention to cohesive devices and salient bundles which can be implemented with the help of effective corpus-based tools.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAsian EFL Journal Pressen_NZ
dc.rightsThis article is published in the Asian ESP Journal. Used with permission.
dc.subjectLexical bundles
dc.subjectChinese students
dc.subjectAcademic writing
dc.subjectCorpus analysis
dc.titleSentence initial bundles: A comparative study between Chinese master’s L2 theses and published writingen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.relation.isPartOfAsian ESP Journalen_NZ
pubs.begin-page129
pubs.declined2019-02-05T12:59:11.497+1300
pubs.deleted2019-02-05T12:59:11.497+1300
pubs.elements-id239862
pubs.end-page162
pubs.issue7.1en_NZ
pubs.volume14en_NZ


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