With the rapid development: A contrastive analysis of lexical bundles in dissertation abstracts by Chinese and L1 English doctoral students

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 21-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaofei Lu ◽  
Jinlei Deng
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Lexical Bundles ◽  
L1 English

scholarly journals Design and Implementation of Webpage Addition Technology in Aerobics Courses

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (09) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Yingying Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Control Experiment ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
College Teaching ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Modern Information Technology ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Experiment Method ◽  
Effect Difference ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
Modernization Process

The rapid development of modern information technology facilitates the reform and innovation of college teaching. A series of technologies, including webpage addition technology, can meet the requirement of aerobics and other shape-related teaching for animation display. Thus, webpage addition technology is a new viewpoint in the education modernization process. The combination of webpage addition technology and Aerobics courses will provide help for Aerobics teaching. Starting from teaching features and the website learning status of Aerobics courses, this paper carried out an application design for webpage addition design. Then, an Aerobics course served as an experimental course. The control experiment method was applied to explore the application practice of webpage addition technology in the control experiment. Furthermore, this paper conducted contrastive analysis on the teaching effect difference with and without webpage addition technology, and drew some conclusions, in the hope of offering reference for combining webpage addition technology with Aerobics courses.

Realizations of oppositional speech acts in English: a contrastive analysis of discourse in L1 and L2 settings

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-202
Author(s):  
Christopher Hopkinson
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Customer Reviews ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
L1 And L2 ◽  
L1 English ◽  
Dimensions Of Variation

Abstract This paper presents the results of a study seeking insights into how speakers express oppositional stance in an online genre (businesses’ responses to negative customer reviews on TripAdvisor). The research is contrastive, exploring the differences between the practices of speakers in two types of setting – L1 English-speaking countries and countries where English is L2 – when performing oppositional speech acts (e.g. disagreement, criticism of the review/reviewer, etc.). Although there exists a large body of work concerned with contrastive differences in speech act realizations, oppositional speech acts remain under-researched – especially in contexts of non-politeness or impoliteness. This paper presents the results of a mixed-method qualitative/quantitative analysis revealing substantial differences along two principal dimensions of variation: the (in)directness with which opposition is expressed, and the downgrading (mitigation) or upgrading (aggravation) of oppositional speech acts. Some of these differences can be traced to well-known tendencies related to L1 versus L2 language use, while others represent new empirical findings that open up potential avenues for future research.

scholarly journals LEXICAL BUNDLES IN L1 AND L2 ENGLISH DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS

2021 ◽  
pp. 475
Author(s):  
Ilyas Yakut ◽  
Fatma Yuvayapan ◽  
Erdogan Bada
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Formulaic Sequences ◽  
Lexical Bundles ◽  
Functional Perspective ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Doctoral Dissertations ◽  
L1 And L2 ◽  
L1 English ◽  
American English Speakers

Based on contrastive interlanguage analysis, this study explores the usage of lexical bundles occurring in doctoral dissertations produced in the English language related studies in the USA by L1 American English speakers and in Turkey by Turkish speakers of English in the last ten years between 2010-2019. In our analysis of the data, we identified a significant number of types of 4-word bundles from both corpora from a structural and functional perspective. The findings regarding the types of lexical bundles and their structural and functional dispersions revealed significant differences between the two corpora. While L1 English writers refrained from heavily utilizing formulaic sequences, the opposite could be observed in the works of L2 English authors. This study has significant implications for academic writers producing work in the English language since corpus-informed lists and concordances might be of great help to L2 speakers of English in identifying appropriate lexical bundles that are specific to their disciplines.

Virtual Learning Environments. The oLTECx

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana D’Alba ◽  
Anjum Najmi ◽  
Jonathan Gratch ◽  
Chris Bigenho
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Game Design ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
University Departments ◽  
Widespread Access

The rapid development in new technologies and media and widespread access to the Internet is changing how people teach and learn. Recognizing the potential of technology, schools and universities are placing more content online from fully deliverable courses to course catalogs, course registration, and college admissions. People are able to gain access to a multitude of information with one click. Online learning environments range from authentic, real-time environments to simulations, as well as 2D and 3D virtual environments. This paper explores the use of a 2-dimensional, narrative-based, virtual learning environment (VLE) created by doctoral students to orient potential students to their university departments’ degree programs, faculty, and course offerings. After exploring the environment, participants were surveyed about their experiences. Findings include validation of the instrument, possible correlations relating to learning through games, engagement, and game design. Emerging themes and suggestions for future research are presented in this paper.

Methodological issues in contrastive lexical bundle research

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-229
Author(s):  
Fan Pan ◽  
Randi Reppen ◽  
Douglas Biber
Keyword(s):  
Average Length ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Lexical Bundles ◽  
Corpus Design ◽  
Lexical Bundle ◽  
L1 English

Abstract This study explores the influence of corpus design when comparing lexical bundle use across groups, examining how the number of texts and average length of texts can impact conclusions about group differences. The study compares the use of lexical bundles by L1-English versus L2-English writers, based on analysis of two sub-corpora of academic articles that are matched for discipline, writer expertize, time of publication, and audience. However, the two sub-corpora differ with respect to the number of texts and the average length of texts. Three experiments examined the influence of differences in corpus composition. The results show that differences in the number of words and number of texts across sub-corpora can have a strong effect on claimed differences in bundle use across groups. This effect is found even when the texts in the corpora are closely matched for their register and topic.

Virtual Learning Environments. The oLTECx

2013 ◽  
pp. 35-50
Author(s):  
Adriana D’Alba ◽  
Anjum Najmi ◽  
Jonathan Gratch ◽  
Chris Bigenho
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Game Design ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
University Departments ◽  
Widespread Access

The rapid development in new technologies and media and widespread access to the Internet is changing how people teach and learn. Recognizing the potential of technology, schools and universities are placing more content online from fully deliverable courses to course catalogs, course registration, and college admissions. People are able to gain access to a multitude of information with one click. Online learning environments range from authentic, real-time environments to simulations, as well as 2D and 3D virtual environments. This paper explores the use of a 2-dimensional, narrative-based, virtual learning environment (VLE) created by doctoral students to orient potential students to their university departments’ degree programs, faculty, and course offerings. After exploring the environment, participants were surveyed about their experiences. Findings include validation of the instrument, possible correlations relating to learning through games, engagement, and game design. Emerging themes and suggestions for future research are presented in this paper.

scholarly journals PHRASEOLOGY IN LEARNER ACADEMIC ENGLISH: CORPUS-DRIVEN APPROACHES

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-88
Author(s):  
Markéta Malá
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Academic English ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Lexical Bundles ◽  
Contrastive Study ◽  
Learner Corpus ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Comprehensive Picture

The paper combines learner corpus research with contrastive analysis to test the applicability of corpus-driven methods to the study of phraseology in learner academic English. It explores phraseological patterns in English L2 academic texts written by Czech university students in comparison with English L1 novice and expert writing. Three corpus-driven approaches are employed: frequency lists, keywords and lexical bundles. The results indicate that a combination of corpus-driven methods can indeed serve as an effective starting point for the contrastive study of phraseology, highlighting potentialareas of under- and overuse of multi-word patterns in English L2 novice academic texts. However, in order to give a more comprehensive picture of learner academic English, quantitative methods have to be combined with qualitative contrastive analysis.

scholarly journals Lexical Bundles of L1 and L2 English Professional Scholars: A Contrastive Corpus-Driven Study on Applied Linguistics Research Articles

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 76-89
Author(s):  
Muchamad Sholakhuddin Al Fajri ◽  
Angkita Wasito Kirana ◽  
Celya Intan Kharisma Putri
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Lexical Bundles ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Functional Types ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
L1 And L2 ◽  
Professional Writers ◽  
L1 English

The current study examined the structural and functional types of four-word lexical bundles in two different corpora of applied linguistics scientific articles written by L1 English and L1 Indonesian professional writers. The findings show that L2 writers employed a higher number of bundles than L1 writers, but L2 writers underused some of the most typical lexical bundles in L1 English writing. Structurally, unlike previous studies, this study reports the frequent use of prepositional phrase (PP) - based bundles in the articles of L2 writers. However, besides the high frequency of PP-based bundles, L2 authors also used a high number of verbal phrase-based bundles, suggesting that these L2 writers were still acquiring more native-like bundles. In terms of functional types, L2 writers employed fewer quantification bundles than their counterparts. This study has potential implications for teaching English for academic writing. Teachers need to raise their students’ awareness of the most frequently used lexical bundles in a specific academic discipline and pay attention to the discourse conventions of academic writing, helping L2 students transition from clausal to phrasal styles.

scholarly journals Purpose, Tasks and Principles of the State Policy in the Field of Combating Cybercrime

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
A. S. Didenko
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
Safe Operation ◽  
Effective Mechanism ◽  
Scientific Cognition ◽  
Effective Use

The extremely rapid development of an information-aware society requires the effective regulation of the state policy in the field of combating cybercrime. The rapid development of technology creates new opportunities in the use of information space, but new opportunities entail new threats in this area. In order to prevent and develop an effective mechanism to repel existing and future threats in the field of cyberspace, it is necessary to study the purpose, tasks and principles of the state policy in the field of combating cybercrime. The purpose of the article is to define the concept of the term of “politics”, in a broad sense, the concept of “state policy”, on the basis of scientific works of scholars, setting the tasks of the state policy in combating cybercrime. The methodological basis of the study is modern general and special methods of scientific cognition, the use of which is determined by a systematic approach. The author of the article considers the scientific works of foreign and domestic scholars who have studied the concept of politics and the concept of state policy in a broad sense. The author has formulated own vision of the terms of “state policy” and “state policy in the field of combating cybercrime”. The study found out that the purpose of state policy in the field of combating cybercrime is to create conditions for the safe operation of cyberspace and its effective use in the interests of individuals, society and the state. The list of tasks of the state policy in the field of counteraction to cybercrime is formulated. It was found out that the purpose and tasks of the state policy in the field of combating cybercrime determine the system of principles, which should be the basis for such a policy. The priority system of principles of the state policy in the field of combating cybercrime is highlighted. The publication will be useful for students, cadets, teachers, post-graduate students and doctoral students of higher education in the field of jurisprudence, as well as anyone interested in the state policy in the sphere of combating cybercrime.

A new tool for rapid development of electron microscopy negatives and micrographs: Initial impressions of the MOHR/PRO-8 processor

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 972-973
Author(s):  
James C. Long
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Processing Time ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Processing Times ◽  
Initial Impressions ◽  
Transport Method

Over the years, many techniques and products have been developed to reduce the amount of time spent in a darkroom processing electron microscopy negatives and micrographs. One of the latest tools, effective in this effort, is the Mohr/Pro-8 film and rc paper processor.At the time of writing, a unit has been recently installed in the photographic facilities of the Electron Microscopy Center at Texas A&M University. It is being evaluated for use with TEM sheet film, SEM sheet film, 35mm roll film (B&W), and rc paper.Originally designed for use in the phototypesetting industry, this processor has only recently been introduced to the field of electron microscopy.The unit is a tabletop model, approximately 1.5 × 1.5 × 2.0 ft, and uses a roller transport method of processing. It has an adjustable processing time of 2 to 6.5 minutes, dry-to-dry. The installed unit has an extended processing switch, enabling processing times of 8 to 14 minutes to be selected.

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