Bridging corpus diagnostics and EAP pedagogy: A corpus-driven study on lexical hedges in Chinese scholars’ spoken academic English

• Yinchun Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Foreign Languages, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

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• Yang Yu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yuyang89@dlmu.edu.cn

  Affiliation School of Foreign Languages, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5110-1088

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• Hanlin Song,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Foreign Languages, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China

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• Yongkang Wu,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Foreign Languages, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

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• Lexuan Lin

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Software, Validation

  Affiliation School of Foreign Languages, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

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