Diana Mazgutova|Judit Kormos
Syntactic and lexical development in an intensive English for Academic Purposes programme
Lancaster University|Lancaster University
study investigates lexical syntactic characteristics l2 learners academic writing change course onemonth long intensive english academic purposes eap programme british university participants asked produce two argumentative essays beginning end eap course analyzed using measures theoretically motivated previous research corpus linguistics systemic functional linguistics developmental child language acquisition results indicate improvements regard lexical diversity intermediatelevel students preparing undergraduate university studies uk upperintermediate level participants planning continue studies postgraduate level academic argumentative texts students lower proficiency group also demonstrate development nounphrase complexity use genrespecific syntactic constructions findings suggest despite explicit focus lexis syntax eap programme end course students writing exhibited developmentally advanced repertoire lexical syntactic choices characteristic expository texts academic contexts