Lexical Bundles in Academic Writing: The Issue of Specificity
Table 2:
| No. | Lexical Bundle in the Current Study (IBM) | Lexical Bundle in AFL (Core Academic Lexical Bundles across Various Disciplines) | Log-likelihood |
| 1 | in order to | in order to | + 60.79 |
| 2 | as well as | as well as | + 60.79 |
| 3 | in terms of | in terms of | + 60.79 |
| 4 | the number of | the number of | + 33.59 |
| 5 | the effect of | the effect of | + 126.31 |
| 6 | the effects of | the effects of | + 109.17 |
| 7 | the importance of | the importance of | + 104.07 |
| 8 | likely to be | likely to be | + 69.84 |
| 9 | as a result | as a result | + 33.79 |
| 10 | the role of | the role of | + 28.82 |
| 11 | a number of | a number of | - 3.58 |
| 12 | the use of | the use of | - 27.59 |
| 13 | the presence of | the presence of | + 4.11 |
| 14 | the development of | the development of | + 7.11 |
| 15 | the case of | the case of | - 1.78 |
| 16 | in other words | in other words | + 11.37 |
| 17 | the fact that | the fact that | - 22.23 |
| 18 | in the same | in the same | + 9.73 |