LEXICAL BUNDLES IN NURSING RESEARCH ARTICLE ABSTRACTS
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This study aimed to 1) explore lexical bundles in nursing research article abstracts, 2) analyze their structural types, and 3) analyze their discourse functions. NURAAB corpus collected from the top-five nursing journals was consisted of 2,248 abstracts or 629,601 tokens. The data analysis process includes three steps: (1) extraction of the lexical bundles rated by rated by the two nursing lectures to ensure the pedagogical usefulness, (2) the analysis of structural types and (3) the analysis of discourse functions.
The results are as follows 1) there are 107 types of lexical bundles were found and some of them are embedded with the technical term of the nursing discipline. Moreover, these lexical bundles are often seen and useful for classroom implementation based on two experts. 2) In term of structures, most of lexical bundles are noun phrase based counted as 42.99%, followed by 21.5% of verb phrase based, 19.63% of clause based, 13% of prepositional phrase based, 2.8% of clause based, respectively. And 3) for the discourse functions, it was found that most lexical bundles served functions as research-oriented for 89%, as text oriented for 8.26%, and participant oriented for 7.25%.
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บทความทุกเรื่องได้รับการตรวจความถูกต้องทางวิชาการโดยผู้ทรงคุณวุฒิ ทรรศนะและข้อคิดเห็นในบทความวารสารบัณฑิตศึกษา มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏวไลยอลงกรณ์ ในพระบรมราชูปถัมภ์ มิใช่เป็นทรรศนะและความคิดของผู้จัดทำจึงมิใช่ความรับผิดชอบของบัณฑิตวิทยาลัย มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏวไลยอลงกรณ์ ในพระบรมราชูปถัมภ์ กองบรรณาธิการไม่สงวนสิทธิ์การคัดลอก แต่ให้อ้างอิงแหล่งที่มา
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