Scholarly texts flavoured with conversational features

This paper deals with the use of corpus linguistics to promote better academic writing. To explore Hungarian undergraduate EFL learners' awareness of academic vocabulary register conventions a learner corpus was compiled, and particular vocabulary items were then compared with the academic and spoken subcorpora of the BNC to establish similarities or differences with native academic writing or spoken language by counting frequency of use. The results largely confirm and coincide with previous (multicultural) research results, which demonstrate a considerable amount of stylistically inappropriate, colloquial lexical features in undergraduates' academic writing