Lexical bundles studies are still limited in relation to the use of verb phrase-based bundles, specifically passive forms academic writing. This study reveals lexico-grammatical patterns and functional categories 409,373-word Malaysian Polytechnics Electronic Engineering Learner Corpus (MyPolyEELC) comparison British Academic Written English (BAWE) 29,530-word sub-corpus. The Sketch Engine lexi...

Corpus linguistics has been in the spotlight for the last decade, with the usage of modern computers and technologies deeper understanding of languages can be obtained. Corpus linguistics helps language teaching for acquiring a better view for language. Language teachers will know what sequence of words and patters tend to co-occur. Unlike previous enormous lists of words which students were fo...

1 Morphology with or without Affixes The last few years have seen the emergence of several clearly articulated alternative approaches to morphology. One such approach rests on the notion that only stems of the so-called lexical categories (N, V, A) are morpheme "pieces" in the traditional sense—connections between (bundles of) meaning (features) and (bundles of) sound (features). What look like...

Lexical bundles, as building blocks of discourse, play vital roles in helping members from the same academic community achieve successful communication and disseminate sustainable disciplinary knowledge. However, little attention has been paid to lexical bundles postgraduate writing. Drawing on Biber et al.’s (1999) structural taxonomy Hyland’s (2008a) functional taxonomy, we identified compare...