Corpus-Based Analysis of Lexical Bundles: Its Potential Applications in English Language Teaching

Lexical bundles, or multi-word sequences, play an essential role in creating discourse in spoken and written registers. Successful use of these bundles indicates the writer is in the discourse community, where experts use the “common language.” In this paper, I will first show the importance of lexical bundles in shaping the discourse by introducing some of the corpus-based research findings. I will then elaborate on the possibilities of applying corpus-based analysis of lexical bundles to English language teaching.《シンポジウム報告③