A Review of Research on Corpus-Based Academic English Writing
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https://doi.org/10.54097/jeer.v4i3.11408Keywords:
Academic English Writing, Corpus, ReviewAbstract
Academic English is the main medium of international academic communication for contemporary scholars, and it is also the main genre of English writing in graduate education. The linguistic community has also emphasized the study of combining corpus research with academic English. In order to have a comprehensive understanding of the research trends of corpus-based academic English writing in the past ten years, this study compiles the relevant research papers on corpus-based academic English writing from 2013 to 2022 and summarizes the hot issues and shortcomings based on the overview of the literature and the content of the research. The study finds that the research on corpus-based academic English writing in China mainly focuses on teaching, genre, register, and interpersonal meaning and found the two trends of the research on self-constructed corpus and interpersonal meaning. Two areas for improvement have also been identified: the unevenness and limitations of relevant research in China.
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