Zoom activity: Photos of the week
Photos of the Week section in The Atlantic Although the lockdown restrictions are gradually being eased in many countries, remote teaching i...
The double life of the asterisk sign
A small glyph with lots of functions An article in Time magazine entitled The History of #—and 6 Other Symbols that Rule Twitter and the Web...
10 things you can do with "10 things you didn't know last week"
10 things you didn't know last week is a digest of news snippets published every Friday on the BBC website. You can find it in a sectio...
Learners' use of collocations: insights from the research 2
"Perform surgery" or "carry out surgery"? Photo by Austin Samaritans via Flickr [CC BY-SA 2.O] What kind of collocation...
Learners' use of collocations: insights from the research
By jjpacres via Flickr [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0] I often cite research in my talks so in this series of posts I would like to share some interestin...
A thank you letter from students
One of the pleasures of teaching lexically is when you see your students starting to incorporate i nto their speech and writing lexical ch...
SLA research: still in the shackles of traditional grammar?
Second Language Acquisition ( SLA ) research also needs a lexical revolution to free itself from the shackles of grammar tyranny. Rant aler...