The purposes of this corpus-driven study were to compare the use four-word lexical bundles between native English and Thai dissertation writings. Two language corpora, roughly 1,000,000 words apiece, gathered from dissertations in field Language Teaching written by both groups writers. Each corpus was subdivided into three sub-corpora, namely, Introduction, Methodology, Results Discussions sub-...

Lexical bundles, as fixed-form recurrent word combinations of multiple words, constitute a significant portion academic writing and play pivotal role in producing fluent texts. Extant studies on lexical bundles have documented difficulties that second language learners, particularly writers experience these their writing. However, despite an extensive existing body research the use various fiel...

Lexical bundles (LBs) are indispensable building blocks and essential constituents of academic discourse. The appropriate utilization the lexical bundle’s approach can effectively enhance students’ understanding LBs in various genres have extensively been studied concerning written spoken language. However, less research has conducted to explore occurrence, nature, frequency Pakistani discourse...