Reflective Writing 6: first webinar in the 4th semester

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Hello! How are you? I hope you are in good health and happiness. I will write reflectively about what I got in yesterday's webinar on this occasion. Yap, before that, I would like to inform you that this meeting of the academic writing course is held simultaneously with the webinar, and this webinar will be my first webinar in the 4th semester. Wow, that's cool! So, in this webinar, we discussed "Vocabulary Profile and Lexical Bundles of EFL Academic Writing: A Corpus-based Study in English Teaching." with speaker Mr. Dr. Christianus I Wayan Eka Budiartha from Sampoerna University.

There are three different research strands in vocabulary study: lexical knowledge, literacy, and metalinguistics awareness. Lexical knowledge is understanding words and their uses. Corson's work defines literacy as the importance of the mastery of medium to low-frequency words of Greek or Latin origin with the intention of the academic success of many learners. So, academic success is amenable to an ability to access and use a higher lexical register. Students who cannot change lexical gears and shift from an informal conversation register to an analytical academic register encounter more and more difficulties at school as the reading and writing demands increase. Metalinguistic awareness is defined as the ability to distance oneself from the content of speech to reflect upon and manipulate language structure. NSs had little experience in metalinguistic analysis, while NNSs had better background knowledge. Therefore, the work on teacher metalinguistic awareness is something significant for EFL students.

Multi-word expressions are believed to be a source of difficulty for non-native users. The essential aspects of language teaching and learning are necessary to achieve native-like competence and fluency to the extent that they are. Formulaic language is defined as sequences of words "stored and retrieved whole from memory at the time of use, rather than being subject to generation or analysis by the language grammar.". In contrast, the lexical bundle is "a recurring sequence of three or more words" that commonly go together in natural discourse. Lexical bundles help to shape meaning in the specific context and contribute to our sense of coherence in a text.

So there are several points from this webinar, namely, IELTS essay writing band 8 fulfilled the lexical proportion of academic writing. The second is in a timed-essay test, and the examinees could not construct longer lexical bundles than three and four words. Regarding the structure characteristics, several lexical bundles were closely related (e.g., the other hand, on the other, on the other hand, etc.). Meanwhile, new lexical bundles expressed unique function characteristics, ie highlighting the first person point of view (eg I believe that, in my opinion, I strongly believe that, etc.)

 

Thank you for reading my reflective! Have a good day and good mind🌈💛

Name   : Rifa Reviana A

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Class    : 4A

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