| Abstrak/Abstract |
The analysis of lexical bundles had been done by several studies from various genres and registers. However, the majority of the studies of lexical bundles in academic discourses which were written by Indonesian writers only focused on the level of expertises and English proficiencies. Therefore, one of the linguistic features that could be a characteristic marker in academic writing which were written by L2 English writers, including Indonesian, is through the identification of lexical bundes. However, those characteristics could be used as a list which could help writers constructed their research article. In addition, to fill this need in revealing the characteristics of research articles which were written by Indonesian writers, this study identified lexical bundles used in academic writing structurally and functionally, focusing on applied linguistics. By using corpus-based analysis, this study took a wider analysis than previous work. The combination of qualitative approach and quantitative approach were also applied in this study. The data were taken from five linguistics journal aticles. Structural classification by Biber et al., (2004) and functional taxonomy approach by Hyland (2008a) were applied. The results reveal that 1) Indonesian writer has advanced writing in academic text because they use various structure of lexical bundles 2) the use of noun phrase category dominate the text 3) the verb phrase category was the second most highly used in the text. These results showed that Indonesian writers have more variations in the way they express their logical view in their research articles, especially on applied linguistics. |
