Öğrenci yazımında sözcük öbekleri: Türk ve Kazakistanlı İngilizce Öğretmenliği Bölümü öğrencilerinin tartışmacı metinlerinin analizi

Recent publications have demonstrated how the advantageous use of lexical bundles is crucial in the forming of spoken and written discourse. Numerous studies are available in the literature that mentions the structural and functional differences between the use of lexical bundles by native speakers of English and non-native EFL students. This study examined the use of lexical bundles in Turkish, Kazakhstani and English L1 speakers' writing, in the form of argumentative essays with the aim of unveiling the differences in the use of lexical bundles by these three groups in terms of frequency, structures and functions. In the light of the findings of this study, they confirmed the general tendency of lexical bundles tradition that native speakers demonstrate to have less multi-word expressions than non-native speakers. In terms of structural categorization, overall numbers reported that noun phrases were prevalent in all four corpora. Anadolu University students and native speakers most frequently employed referential expressions. Eskişehir Osmangazi University and Ablai Khan University students mainly preferred discourse organizers. Native speakers' functional and structural analysis yielded almost similar results with non-native students. Statistical analysis revealed that non-native speakers overused frequently recurring word sequences in comparison with native speakers.