Corpus Linguistics for Grammar provides an accessible and practical introduction to the use of corpus linguistics to analyse grammar, demonstrating the wider application of corpus data …
JC Richards - International perspectives on materials in ELT, 2014 - Springer
Despite the advances in technology and the role of the internet, coursebooks are the main teaching resource used by many of the world's English teachers. The extent of English …
R Forman - Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The global textbook has an enormous influence upon what is taught in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. As Akbari has noted, our era is not simply 'postmethod', but …
L Collins, J Ruivivar - Language Teaching, 2021 - cambridge.org
We propose five research tasks targeting grammar teaching and learning, focusing on extending previous research and exploring under-studied features and contexts. The first …
Innovations and Challenges in Grammar traces the history of common understandings of what grammar is and where it came from to demonstrate how 'rules' are anything but fixed …
The English language has served the function of a world-wide lingua franca since the mid- 1900s with a scale and spread unparalleled in the linguistic history of humankind. In …
R Berry - Language Awareness, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This paper looks at the continued survival of 'myths' about English grammar, for example, the statement that in negative and interrogative sentences any should be used instead of some …
J Ruivivar, L Collins - Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 2019 - jbe-platform.com
Scholars advocate for more classroom attention to be paid to spoken grammar which deviates from commonly taught rules of writing. However, these recommendations have not …