News Quiz 2020 - Follow Up
Activities for reviewing and recycling the language from News Quiz 2020 Image credits: Frankie Fouganthin [CC BY-SA 4.0], TenAsia [CC BY...
Criticism of the Lexical Approach
"All chunks and no pineapple?" Image by Andrew Malone via Flickr [ CC BY 2.0 ] Writing an essay or working on a paper on the Lexi...
Colligation and a bottom-up approach to grammar
Summary of Hugh Dellar's IATEFL webinar Following the patterns: colligation and the necessity of a bottom-up approach to grammar - Sept...
Closely connected
Photo by Sudhamshu Hebbar on Flickr [CC BY 2.0] An article written by the British linguist Vyvyan Evans entitled “Language Instinct is a My...
Lexical Approach: a definitive reference list
Not a proper blog post this time but just a list of references and useful links I have compiled for a series of workshops I have been giving...
To confer or to concur?
Image by @sandymillin via eltpics on Flickr For the first time since it was last held in Harrogate (2010), I didn’t go to the annual IATEFL...
We are lexically indebted to him
Image source: www.willis-elt.co.uk I opened my Facebook yesterday morning and was saddened to see Chia Suan Chong’s post about the passing o...
The highway to fluency and a roundabout way to grammar
Photo by @GoldsteinBen via eltpics on Flickr A second lesson with two new pre-intermediate (A2) students (I usually put my private student...
The Lexical Approach: 20 years on...
This year sees the 20th anniversary of the publication of Michael Lewis's "The Lexical Approach", the book that has changed th...
What corpora HAVE done for us
Sinclair's seminal work - the bible of corpus linguistics In this post I would like to defend linguistic corpora and their relevance to ...
Grammar rules... again?! Chunks strike back
This is a somewhat belated reaction to Catherine Walter's article which appeared in the Learning English section of Guardian last autumn...