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It is generally agreed that a mastery of lexical bundles is an essential reflection of mastery of the target language. Thus, this paper aims to investigate the use of lexical bundles of Malaysian ESL learners. Frequency-based lexical bundles were retrieved from a corpus of student essays. The data were collected from two types of corpora; 50 graphic-oriented essays and 50 open-ended essays of upper-intermediate English language learners. Findings of this study revealed that learner have the tendency to use more structural classifications in graphic-oriented essays when compared to open-ended essays.
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To Cite this Article: Khalit, E. H. E. I., & Filzah, F. (2020). Lexical Bundles in Malaysian ESL Learner Corpora. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 10(14), 23–30.
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