Margaret Franken
List of John Benjamins publications in which Margaret Franken is involved.
Articles
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
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
Sharing more than ideas: The use of appraisal devices in student asynchronous online discussions Australian Review of Applied Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
Asynchronous online discussion (AOD), valued for its dialogic potential and flexibility in accommodating learners across time and space, is a prominent method in tertiary online education and a growing focus within e-learning research. Although AOD has been studied extensively, the specific… read more