English’s Travel Advisories: Corpus-based Study in English’s Word/Phrase Forms
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https://doi.org/10.25047/jeapco.v12i2.5784Keywords:
corpus linguistics, lexical bundles, academic wordlist, official text, n-gramsAbstract
This study explores the academic-based words frequency, lexical bundles appearances, and the structures of lexical bundles in an official travel advisory files issued by British Government. Utilizing corpus-based programs for analyses, there are 50 travel advisories of 50 countries consisting of 31,243 tokens. The results present that verb phrases as the most frequent structure of lexical bundles, closely followed by noun phrases. These findings contrast with previous studies where noun or prepositional phrases are dominant. In addition, the study finds out that academic terms possess 7.70% of percentage in the texts, higher than undergraduate texts, but lower than highly prominent texts. The study points out the different lexical features of travel advisories and offers suggestions for further investigation at the terms. Furthermore, the findings have possibilities to be analysed, implemented, and widened in other research studies as this study provides insight into vocabulary usage and complementary materials for teaching and learning development.
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