43rd Article "Lexical bundles in L1 and L2 university student argumentative writing"

Ayu Rini Tri Utari
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Review of the 43rd article

"Lexical bundles in L1 and L2 university student argumentative writing"

  This article explain about the study compares L1-English and L1-Chinese undergraduate students use of lexical bundles in English argumentative essays, and identifies the most common bundle misuses in L2 student writing. They compared the forms and functions of four-word bundles. Findings indicated that L2 student not only use substantially more bundle types tokens than L1 writers, but the structural and functional patters also differ. While L1 writers bundle consist of mostly noun and preposition phrases, L2 students use significantly more verb phrase (clausal) bundles. In addition, most of the misused bundle in the L2 writers essays pertain to grammatical mistakes, particularly with article and prepositions.