In the last 19 years (2003–2021), research on genre-based approaches (GBAs) to writing
pedagogy has been accumulating in the fields of English as a second language (ESL) and …

This study investigates disciplinary variation in the relationship between syntactic complexity
and rhetorical move-steps in research article (RA) introductions. Our data consisted of the …

This study examined diachronic changes in the syntactic complexity of research article (RA)
introductions produced by emerging and expert international publication (IP) writers over the …

Rhetorical move-step analysis is a text analytical approach that is used to investigate the
organizational and rhetorical structures of community genre practices. Move-step analysis …

This study investigated variation in the rhetorical and phraseological features of research
article introductions among five social science disciplines. Our dataset consisted of the …

An increasing body of genre analysis research within English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
has attended to the relationship between linguistic features and their rhetorical functions in …

Despite a marked shift towards blended learning in EAP due to massification of higher
education and the impact of COVID-19, relatively little is known about student engagement …

In spite of the existence of writing courses for postgraduate students in English-as-a-foreign-
language (EFL) contexts, their academic writing proficiency remains low. Therefore, EFL …

This study investigated disciplinary variation with respect to syntactic complexity in students'
written academic texts from the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus. We …

In Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition, Xiaofei Lu comprehensively
reviews empirical studies that employ corpus linguistic methods to investigate issues in …