Internationally recognised as one of the leading texts in its field, this volume offers a
comprehensive introduction to vocabulary for language teachers who would like to know …

My first encounters with formulaic language date back to the mid 1990s during my time as a
teacher of English as a Second Language (ESL) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) …

As researchers and practitioners are becoming more aware of the importance of multi-word
items in English, there is little doubt that phrasal verbs deserve teaching attention in the …

Using the academic writing sub-corpora of the Corpus of Contemporary American English
and the British National Corpus as data and building on previous research, this study strives …

Quantitative Methods for Second Language Research introduces approaches to and
techniques for quantitative data analysis in second language research, with a primary focus …

This study investigates L2 learners' knowledge of highly frequent polysemous phrasal verbs
in English, and the effect of a number of factors on this knowledge. 128 students on BA …

The use of collocations plays an important role for the proficiency of ESL/EFL learners.
Hence, educators and researchers have long tried to identify collocations typical of either …

This chapter examines current research on corpus-based word lists for second language
learners of English. It begins with a review of different kinds of corpus-based word lists. After …

This study investigates the hitherto understudied area of the use of phrasal verbs (PVs) in
expert academic writing in the discipline of Linguistics. It uses a novel methodology …

Effective Curriculum for Teaching L2 Writing sets out a clear big picture for curricular thinking
about L2 writing pedagogy and offers a step-by-step guide to curriculum design with …