An exploratory study on an integrated genre-based approach for the instruction of academic lexical phrases

This study explores a holistic approach in the teaching and learning of academic lexical phrases. It incorporates the Sydney school genre-based pedagogy and corpus-informed explicit instruction into the ESP (English for Specific Purposes) genre-based framework for a better “text in context” exemplification of genre knowledge and genre related language features (including lexical phrases). A distinction is made between general (or “lexical...