Lee, Je-Young & Lee, Hye-Jin. ¡°Lexical bundle analysis in the secondary English teacher recruitment exams: A corpus-based study.¡± Studies in English Language & Literature 47.1 (2021): 205-224. Knowledge of lexical bundles, prefabricated (phraseological) chunks, is not only marked as an essential instrument to develop fluent language but also a marker of the shared membership within the same discourse community. The overriding purpose of this study is devoted to identify the functional types and structural patterns of lexical bundles used in the Secondary English Teacher Recruitment Exams (SETRE) administered from the years of 2002 through 2021. For the identification of idiosyncratic lexical bundles within the 130,687-word specific SETRE corpus, the concordance tool, Antconc 3.5.8, was applied under the frequency and dispersion criteria. With a 4-frequency occurrence as the cut-off limit and the conservative dispersion criteria, a total number of 108 four-word lexical bundles were retrieved. The structural analysis of lexical bundles demonstrated that compared to other academic texts, VP-based lexical bundles were pervasive in SETRE. The results also yielded empirical evidence of discipline-specificity features of SETRE. Grounded in the corpus-driven findings, this research drew pivotal implications for further research and pedagogical practices and it is hoped to add a valued contribution to advancing lexical bundle research. (Jeonju University ¡¤ Wonkwang University) |