Lexical bundles in the academic writing of advanced chinese EFL learners

RELC Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 155-166

  Wei, Yaoyu ^a   Lei, Lei ^b  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

advanced chinese EFL learners; doctoral dissertations; Lexical bundles

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960209081     PISSN: 00336882     EISSN: 1745526X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0033688211407295     Document Type: Article

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