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- Title
Lexical bundles in Biology Differences between textbooks and research articles.
- Authors
Sánchez, Purificación
- Abstract
On the basis of previous lexical bundle studies, this paper examines the forms, structures and functions of 4-word bundles in a corpus of textbooks and a corpus of research articles in Biology. The study includes the main biological disciplines and focuses on three major features: the overall distribution of bundles, their typical structures, and their functions in discourse in Biology. The findings support the idea that lexical bundles are a basic linguistic construct with important functions for the construction of discourse in this area. Concluding discussion highlights the pedagogical implications of using research journals and/or textbooks to teach English to biologists in a second language context. Furthermore, the importance of explicit instruction in these word combinations in courses on English for Biologists is emphasized.
- Subjects
LEXICAL grammar; BIOLOGY textbooks; CORPORA; PEDAGOGICAL content knowledge; APPLIED linguistics
- Publication
Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada (John Benjamins Publishing Co.), 2014, Vol 27, Issue 2, p492
- ISSN
0213-2028
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/resla.27.2.12san