A CORPUS-BASED LEXICO-GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS OF IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1 AND ITS PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS
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Writing plays a critical role in high-stakes language assessment, particularly in the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 requires candidates to produce a concise report describing visual data such as graphs, charts, tables, maps, or processes within a limited time frame.Abstract
Corpus linguistics has become an influential methodological framework in second language acquisition (SLA) research because it enables systematic, empirical analysis of authentic language use. By examining large, principled collections of texts, corpus-based approaches move beyond intuition-based descriptions of language and instead identify recurring lexical and grammatical patterns that characterise particular genres. In SLA, learner corpora are especially valuable, as they provide direct insight into how language learners actually produce written and spoken texts, revealing both emerging competencies and persistent areas of difficulty. As a result, corpus linguistics has increasingly informed research on interlanguage development, assessment, and pedagogical practice
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