Lexical bundles as formulaic sequences

Abstract EN

Using and learning formulaic language is regarded significant to learn language, yet studying lexical bundles did not take its sufficient attention in learning and teaching language.

Thus, the current research will try to define and explain the uses of the lexical bundles as formulaic sequences.

Studies about lexical bundles starts with the original study of Bengt Altenberg in 1993 and 1998.

These scholars shaped the methodology to identify the combinations of frequency-defined repeated words and joined the grammatical analysis with the functional one in classifying them.

Obviously, the method of defining and categorizing formulaic units only relying on the occurrence frequency and the wide use benefits as being methodologically straightforward, even if scholars utilized various criteria of frequency and distribution.

The initial frequency that decides the bundles number to be contained in the list extended from (10-40) times/million words.

When working with lexical bundles in such ways to compare individual words in corpora of various sizes, the results may be unpredictable; therefore, extra researches and studies are required to prove their validity (Biber, Conrad & Cortes, 2004).