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

Wang Y, Yu Y, Song H, Wu Y, Lin L

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0353106
Published: 2026
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@article{allodium:10.1371/journal.pone.0353106,
  title = {Bridging corpus diagnostics and EAP pedagogy: A corpus-driven study on lexical hedges in Chinese scholars' spoken academic English.},
  author = {Wang Y and Yu Y and Song H and Wu Y and Lin L},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {PloS one},
  doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0353106},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0353106}
}

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AU  - Song H
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Y, W., Y, Y., H, S., Y, W., & L, L. (2026). Bridging corpus diagnostics and EAP pedagogy: A corpus-driven study on lexical hedges in Chinese scholars' spoken academic English.. PloS one. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0353106

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