This paper provides an overview of how analyses of linguistic features in writing samples
provide a greater understanding of predictions of both text quality and writer development …

Foreign language (FL) aptitude generally refers to a specific talent for learning a foreign or
second language (L2). After experiencing a long period of marginalized interest, FL aptitude …

Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

Corpus Linguistics has revolutionised the world of language study and is an essential
component of work in Applied Linguistics. This book, now in its second edition, provides a …

My first encounters with formulaic language date back to the mid 1990s during my time as a
teacher of English as a Second Language (ESL) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) …

Corpus Linguistics for Vocabulary provides a practical introduction to using corpus
linguistics in vocabulary studies. Using freely available corpus tools, the author provides a …

The advent of usage‐/exemplar‐based approaches has resulted in a major change in the
theoretical landscape of linguistics, but also in the range of methodologies that are brought …

The book investigates theories and measures of working memory in second language
learning, processing and development. Research syntheses, theoretical perspectives and …

Humor in the Classroom provides practical, research-based answers to questions that
educational researchers and language teachers might have about the social and cognitive …

This study contributes to the emerging line of research on the linguistic realizations of
rhetorical functions in disciplinary writing by presenting a list of phrase-frames identified from …