Application of lexical bundles from biotechnical research articles in ESP teaching

• Main Author: Lazić Katarina O.
• Format: Article
• Language: srp
• Published: Faculty of Forestry, Belgrade 2019-01-01
• Series: Glasnik Šumarskog Fakulteta: Univerzitet u Beogradu
• Subjects: Lexical bundles (LB); corpus research; English for specific purposes (ESP); academic writing
• Online Access: http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-4537/2019/0353-45371919077L.pdf

This paper presents the possibility of applying a list of lexical bundles that have been singled out as the most common or typical in the texts of native English speakers. These bundles belong to biotechnical research articles and this study reveals how lists of pedagogically useful lexical bundles could be transferred to teaching materials intended for non-native speakers who aim to master their writing skills for the purpose of writing research papers in English in the field of biotechnology. Lexical bundles occurring in all subcorpora of biotechnical articles, i.e. the subcorpora of forestry, landscape architecture, ecological engineering and wood processing point to those groups of lexical bundles whose proper use should first be adopted by the authors of biotechnical articles, while the results of their classification and further analyses provide materials for exercises which aim to teach their use. In this way, our research responds to the invitation of the study Chen and Baker (2010), which urges pedagogues and publishers to use more results of automated corpus research in teaching.