@article{2020,title={VERBS AND THEIR PATTERNS IN ACADEMIC WRITINGS OF TURKISH LEARNERS OF ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE},abstractNode={The purpose of this paper is to investigate the interlanguage features of Turkish EFL learners in academic written discourse. Acquisition and usage of lexical verbs of Academic Keyword List (AKL) (Paqout, 2010) by Turkish EFL learners will be analyzed. AKL covers the non-domain specific words which entitle the characteristics of academic texts and outline the basic academic sketch of the texts. It is assumed that the level of acquisition of these words that are defined under four basic lexical categories (nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives) will reveal the students’ lexical repertoires of academic vocabularies as well as interpreting lexico-grammatical attributes specific to writers. Detailed analysis of lexical verbs may help researchers to define the interlanguage features of Turkish EFL learners. The scope of this study includes conducting a corpus-based analysis of verbs of AKL.For this corpus-based study, at the first level, comparison of TICLE (Turkish sub-corpus of International Corpus of Learner English) and the LOCNESS (The Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays) corpus was utilized to define general lexical profile of the learners by preparing frequency-based list according to usage levels of the verbs in two corpora. At the second level, a detailed analysis of 10 verbs with the highest frequency was conducted within the frame of the Pattern Grammar approach. Results indicate the overuse of some specific words by non-native students while some others are underused in comparison to native speakers of English. This investigation revealed the levels of students’ implicit knowledge of these particular lexical items, their awareness of register of academic verbs and to what extent they can put in use these items within the frame of functional lexico-grammatical usage.},author={Fatih Ünal BOZDAĞ-Hatice SOFU},year={2020},journal={International Journal of Language Academy}}