lexical bundles

gohyi141@tganui.uitm.edu.my

(lexical bundles)

Using Lexical Bundles for Vocabulary Acquisition for the Teaching

of Chinese as a Foreign Language
Goh Yingsoon
Mara University of Technology, Academy of Language Studies, Malaysia
gohyi141@tganui.uitm.edu.my
Abstract: In vocabulary acquisition, the use of lexical bundles in the teaching is very essential.
The use of lexical bundles enables students to use the vocabulary accurately for oral expression
and writing. This article focuses on giving concrete examples how lexical bundles can be used in
enriching vocabulary acquisition for the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language.
Keywords: lexical bundles, vocabulary acquisition, the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language

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Jablonkai 2012

Hyland, 2008
disciplinary variation

formulaic language
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(Registers) (Biber2006)
Corpus (Keeffe, McCarthy, & Carter, 2007

Adel & Erman2012

CKIP
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Chen & Baker2010

Biber, Conrad, & Cortes, 2004

Karabacak & Qin, 2013)

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& Amirian, 2011

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