한국언어과학회

The purpose of this paper is to explore bundle-move connections in research article (RA) abstracts written by L1 and L2 writers in applied linguistics. Two move-tagged corpora were used in this study. The results indicated that research-oriented and stance-oriented bundles had a connection to Move 1, research-oriented bundles to Move 2 and Move 3, and text-oriented bundles to Move 4 and Move 5. A comparison of functional distribution of lexical bundles in the two corpora found that, for bundle tokens, L2 writers underused research-oriented bundles in Move 1, text-oriented bundles in Move 3, stance-oriented bundles in Move 5. Furthermore, they overused stance-oriented bundles in Move 2 and Move 4, stance-oriented bundles in Move 4, and research-oriented bundles in Move 5. L2 writers used heavily certain bundles in their RA abstract moves, which may indicate a lack of variety in RA moves. The findings from this study may provide a useful reference for academic writing instruction in English for academic purposes.