Analysis of Research Articles in Applied Linguistics Using an Approach Combining Moves and Lexical bundles: Toward Developing a Support Tool for Writing Research Articles in English 21

Writing an academic research paper poses many challenges for novice researchers in that it requires, in addition to a good understanding of a specific research topic, the knowledge of "move," or the writer\u27s communicative purpose of discourse and "lexical bundles," or multi-word sequences. In order to help struggling writers of an academic research paper (especially those in English as a foreign language contexts), we will develop a web-based writing support tool. As an initial step toward the goal, in this study, we compiled a large corpus of published articles in the field of applied linguistics. By tagging the moves, we then extracted lexical bundles characteristic to those moves. The results confirm the effectiveness of the approach, which combine the move analysis of Swalesian genre theory and lexical bundles. Pedagogical implications are discussed based on the findings.本研究は，平成27年度関西大学研究拠点形成支援経費（課題名：国際的な研究拠点としての関西大学英語ライティング・ハブの設立および英語論文ライティング支援ツールの開発）の助成を受けて実施された

Applying the bundle-move connection approach to the development of an online writing support tool for research articles

With advances in information and computer technology, genre-based writing pedagogy has developed greatly in recent years. In order to further this growth in technology-enhanced genre writing pedagogy, the current study developed a data-driven and theory-based practical writing support tool for research articles (RAs). This web-based, innovative tool, powered by the combination of rhetorical moves and lexical bundles, has an auto-complete feature that suggests the most frequent lexical bundles in a move within an RA section. It was developed based on the proof-of-concept of the bundle-move connection approach. Preliminary user feedback was positive was overall, and it was found that the writing support tool brought about beneficial effects that genre writing pedagogy explicitly aims to achieve. In light of these findings, the pedagogical implications of the developed tool are discussed, with particular focus on the potential role that it could play in the teaching and learning of technology-enhanced genre writing.The study was funded by the 2015-2016 Kansai University Outlay for Establishing Research Centers and JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 17H02369 and 15K02717

ICTを活用した英語アカデミック・ライティング指導 : 支援ツールの開発と実践

平成27-28年度関西大学研究拠点形成支援「国際的な研究拠点としての関西大学英語ライティング・ハブの設立および英語論文ライティング支援ツールの開発