Recurrent word combinations in academic writing by native and non-native speakers of English: A lexical bundles approach

English for Specific Purposes

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 81-92

  Ädel, Annelie ^a   Erman, Britt ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Academic writing; Corpus based research; Formulaic language; Lexical bundles; Native and non native speakers of English

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856958041     PISSN: 08894906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2011.08.004     Document Type: Article

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