Featuring extensive updates and revisions, the 3rd edition of Materials and Methods in ELT
offers a comprehensive and useful introduction to the principles and practice of teaching …

Drawing on the evidence of a growing body of corpus research over the past two decades,
this article investigates the phenomenon of spoken grammar in conversational English and …

Metonymy and Language presents a new theory of language and communication in which
the central focus is on the concept of metonymy, the recognition of partial matches and …

Readability indices have been widely used in order to measure textual difficulty. They can
be useful for the automatic classification of texts, especially in language teaching. Among …

There is an extensive body of research concerning the second language (L2) acquisition of
tense-aspect morphology in relation to an inherent aspectual property of verb predicates …

In the field of language teaching, the term 'washback'is most commonly found in the context
of testing, where it refers to the influence of language testing on language teaching and …

This thesis investigates the role of metonymy in communication, in creating text, in learner
communication and in translation. I make the claim that metonymy, defined here as the …

Alan Waters, Lancaster University ► Textbooks as ‘entrée’ into world of everyday language
teaching ► Research qu Page 1 1 Alan Waters, Lancaster University A paper presented at …

This paper demonstrates the relevance of delexical nouns (way, end, case and point) based
on corpus findings, course book analyses and classroom experiments. To this end, first …

The study presented in this thesis compared the effectiveness of two teaching frameworks:
Presentation Practice Production (PPP) and Observe Hypothesise Experiment (OHE). The …