Margaret Franken

List of John Benjamins publications in which Margaret Franken is involved.

Articles

Li, Liang, Margaret Franken and Shaoqun Wu 2024 Sentence initial lexical bundles in Chinese and New Zealand PhD theses in the discipline of General and Applied Linguistics Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 47:1, pp. 101–122 | Article

Lexical bundles are recurrent multiword combinations and often function as discourse building blocks. Lexical bundles have been analysed in university students’ writing to detect linguistic errors, measure writing competence, and investigate the divergence between L1 and L2 writing. Few studies,… read more

Franken, Margaret 2001 The parameters of speaking for writing tasks Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 24:1, pp. 51–60 | Article

This paper seeks to identify student, syllabus, and instructional parameters which influence the outcomes of speaking tasks aimed at preparing students for writing. The parameters arise from cognitive, affective and rhetorical concerns. The paper takes the view that some parameters are ‘givens’… read more