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2009 6 () J un.2009 32 　 3 CELEA J ournal (Bimonthly) Vol.32 No.3 A STUDY ON THE USE OF FOUR-WORD LEXICAL BUNDLES IN ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAYS BY CHINESE ENGLI SH-MAJORS — A COMPARATIVE STUDY BASED ON WECCL AND LOCNESS Pang Ping Minzu University of China Abstract 　　The study of recurrent word com inations has attracted the attention of linguists since the eginning of the last century .The present study investigated a special type of frequent word com inations, lexical undles, which are defined as a sequence of three or more words that co-occur frequently in a particular register (Bi er et al .1999).The aim was to improve the understanding of the structure and function of lexical undles in argumentative writing y comparing the use of such undles y native English speakers (as represented in LOCNESS)and non-native English learners (as represented in WECCL)at the university level.The Chinese learners are f ound to use 4 times as many lexical undles as the native speakers do, ut most of them are topic- related, while the native speakers use more functional undles.It is also f ound that structurally the Chinese learners use more “ver phrases with active ver s”and “noun plus ver pattern”, while the native speakers use more “noun plus preposition pattern”.Thirdly, functional analysis yields that the Chinese learners use a special type of stance undle, “third person plural”, while the native speakers use impersonal stance undles instead. Finally, some pedagogical implications, as well as suggested future research, are introduced and discussed. Key wor ds lexical undles;Chinese EFL Learners;native English speakers;argumentative writing;corpus-ased study 1.Introduction 1.1 TheImportanceof Lexical Bu