The Impact of Teaching Lexical Bundles on Improving Iranian EFL Students’ Writing Skill

AbstractThe present study aims to examine how significant the use of lexical bundles prevalent in the field of applied linguistics can be in students’ writing materials. Forty lexical bundles which were judged to be the most frequent, most relevant and functionally important to the discipline of applied linguistics were chosen and taught to twenty MA students of TEFL. They were asked to write a piece of writing on a given topic prior to and after the instruction. The bundles were intended to help them develop their ideas into organized paragraphs. The data included students’ writings, as well as their elicited views, collected through a questionnaire, regarding the helpfulness of the bundles in writing skill. The findings indicated that the bundles were of significant help to the students’ writing ability and that students attribute great importance to lexical bundles. The findings indicate that every course in writing should give significance to the teaching of lexical bundles