Lexical Bundles Ending in that in Academic Writing by Czech Learners and Native Speakers of English

• Authors: Gabriela Brůhová , Kateřina Vašků

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to explore how Czech learners of English use lexical bundles ending in that in their academic texts in comparison with novice and professional L1 authors. The analysis is based on three corpora (VESPA-CZ, BAWE and our own cor- pus of papers published in academic journals). The results suggest that Czech learners of English do not use a more limited repertoire of lexical bundles ending in that than pro- fessional writers. However, there are differences between the groups studied, especially in the range of various shell nouns used in nominal bundles. Novice writers, both L1 and L2, use bundles ending in that to express stance more frequently than professional writers.

Keywords

EN

learner corpus; VESPA; lexical bundles; that; stance; academic writing

• Publisher: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
• Journal: Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 30(2)
• Pages: 53-69

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Gabriela Brůhová

author

Kateřina Vašků

Identifiers

DOI

10.7311/0860-5734.30.2.03

Biblioteka Nauki

2049137