What model of English should we teach? In this paper, I take up the challenge to teachers posed by recent corpus linguists, according to which we now know what real spoken and written English looks like, so what excuse is there for not teaching real English?Now we can have access to much more reliable information and learners will be able to produce with confidence much more idiomatic English, with less effort involved’ (Sinclair, 1987, p. 159). Why should we still insist on teaching made-up textbook sentences and ‘concocted dialogues’ (Carter and McCarthy, 1995, p. 154) when we have, at our fingertips, infinite examples of the ‘real thing?’ (see also Rinvolucri, 1997; Hill, 1999). On the face of it, there would seem to be no argument: w...
The main topic of this research is the use of corpora in the teaching and learning of the English la...
In the light of ongoing international debate about the purpose of explicit teaching of grammar, this...
Hablar de gramática implica, como primer paso, realizar una serie de precisiones terminológicas debi...
Traditionally, language teaching has been grounded on a monolingual bias and the strict separation o...
International audienceThis chapter presents a study carried out in four several final year elementar...
Throughout history there has been tremendous debate about what comprises the best methods and approa...
In this paper, I study my professional performance in the classroom as an English as an aditional l...
In the field of teaching English literature to Spanish adolescents, a multimodal approach offers div...
A oralidade tem vindo a ser progressivamente promovida em programas e currículos, tanto nacional com...
Un accent de non-natif peut mener à une incompréhension ou à la perception de degrés différents d'ac...
The notion of “antecedents” in the historiography of linguistics calls for a number of observations,...
Anaphora is a ubiquitous linguistic phenomenon whereby the interpretation of one ex- pression, calle...
Our research aims to explore the interpretative literary debate, a new and emblematic subject which ...
Tradicionalment s'ha pensat que la traducció com a eina a l'aula de llengües estrangeres va quedar d...
In his seminal article On Communicative Competence (1972), Dell Hymes presented arguments to defend ...
The main topic of this research is the use of corpora in the teaching and learning of the English la...
In the light of ongoing international debate about the purpose of explicit teaching of grammar, this...
Hablar de gramática implica, como primer paso, realizar una serie de precisiones terminológicas debi...
Traditionally, language teaching has been grounded on a monolingual bias and the strict separation o...
International audienceThis chapter presents a study carried out in four several final year elementar...
Throughout history there has been tremendous debate about what comprises the best methods and approa...
In this paper, I study my professional performance in the classroom as an English as an aditional l...
In the field of teaching English literature to Spanish adolescents, a multimodal approach offers div...
A oralidade tem vindo a ser progressivamente promovida em programas e currículos, tanto nacional com...
Un accent de non-natif peut mener à une incompréhension ou à la perception de degrés différents d'ac...
The notion of “antecedents” in the historiography of linguistics calls for a number of observations,...
Anaphora is a ubiquitous linguistic phenomenon whereby the interpretation of one ex- pression, calle...
Our research aims to explore the interpretative literary debate, a new and emblematic subject which ...
Tradicionalment s'ha pensat que la traducció com a eina a l'aula de llengües estrangeres va quedar d...
In his seminal article On Communicative Competence (1972), Dell Hymes presented arguments to defend ...
The main topic of this research is the use of corpora in the teaching and learning of the English la...
In the light of ongoing international debate about the purpose of explicit teaching of grammar, this...
Hablar de gramática implica, como primer paso, realizar una serie de precisiones terminológicas debi...