Chris Turner

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English for Academic Purposes: What are the main challenges involved in teaching academic writing skills to Spanish learners of English?

And what classroom and self-study tasks would you recommend to deal with these challenges? I would appreciate answers that deal with any of the following areas: - Different rhetorical patterns and...

26 December 2017 1,929 2 View

To what extent can the principles of demographic statistics be applied to corpus research?

I am trying to apply a number of statistical measures to my corpus research into some and any. The main measures I am applying are: 1) Measures such as T-score and MI score to produce reliable...

07 January 2016 2,715 2 View

Can you recommend research into adjective complementation patterns?

I have become very interested in the complementation patterns of adjectives as my students make a number of errors in this area. I am particularly interested in adjective patterns containing...

06 November 2015 3,413 5 View

Which aspects of spoken grammar are most useful for your learners?

And which grammar books do you use to teach it? I am directing this question at both TESOL and TEFL teachers. I expect the former to give quite different answers to the latter.

14 October 2015 3,467 3 View

Do you know any error analysis studies which combine the use of learner corpora with pyscholinguistic research methods, such as think-aloud analysis?

My initial idea is to conduct error analysis research into "some" and "any" as follows: 1) I will use learner corpora to determine the errors which learners make with these words at different...

09 October 2015 9,774 17 View