A Corpus based Study of Lexical Bundles in Native and Non-Native Speaking Group Discussions
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Ashraf Vaziri
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Hamed Barjesteh
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Atefeh Nasrollahi Mouziraji
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Keywords: Corpus analysis, Lexical bundles, Speaking group discussion,
Abstract :
Speech is unquestionably organized with lexical bundles that are managed along with syntactic rule and hold each own mixture of functions. Lexical bundles make written and spoken lan-guage more coherent, it has also crucial position in the comprehension of context. So, investi-gating lexical bundles in different circumstances is beneficial for learners in creating suitable speech. This research considered the “frequency”, “structure” and “function” of four-word lex-ical bundles in speaking group discussions. British National Corpus (BNC) was applied as a na-tive corpus in this research and Iranian intermediate EFL learners were the non-native corpus. To achieve this goal, by using AntConc 3.3.0 software, four- word lexical bundles were extract-ed from twenty-one group discussions corpus and were classified by employing Biber et al. (2004)“structural and functional” taxonomies. Comparing both corpora, outcomes showed that Native Speakers utilized more “lexical bundles” than Non-native. Besides Native Speakers em-ployed more “discourse organizing bundles” in functional classification and “verb phrases” in structural classification, whereas Non-native Speakers more normally utilized lexical bundles as “stance expressions” in functional classification and “verb phrase fragments” in structural clas-sification. The results of the research have some significant educational indications for language EFL teachers, researchers and learners too.
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