Chris Turner

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Could you help me to locate a researcher who has expressed interested in my research?

I have received an email from a researcher, Nathan P. Clarke, via SciSpace, asking me for an article that I wrote in 2015, at the beginning of my PhD research into the words some and any. His...

01 November 2024 7,036 0 View

How should I treat questions only answered by one rater in interrater analysis?

I am currently devising a questionnaire for an interrater agreement analysis of essays written by students at my university. Each essay is examined by two raters, who answer a series of questions....

28 June 2024 4,979 0 View

RELATIONSHIP between PROCEDURAL and DECLARATIVE knowledge in NON-LINGUISTIC cognitive tasks: Anyone know work on this from psychology/pedagogy etc?

As part of my justification for using form-focused activites to help learners to acquire some and any-the subject of my PhD- I am critiquing Krashen's claim that there is a non-interface, or at...

11 October 2018 3,311 8 View

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 2,013 2 View

Is excessive or misguided political correctness an impediment to sincere, open debate?

If political correctness is understood as the need to avoid comments which offend, exclude or marginalise groups within society, or to depart from a prejudiced viewpoint of these collectives, then...

26 December 2017 6,804 3 View

What do you think of the "Vaughan Method" of Language Learning, essentially a mixture of audiolingualism and grammar translation?

I will give you my take on his method below. As my anti -Vaughan bias is fairly evident, I refer you to the following pages so that you can make up your own...

24 April 2017 246 11 View

Do you know of good articles which provide evidence for polysemy in the mind?

I am looking for research which confirms that we are able to hold more than one meaning for a word in our mind. There are a number of references on Internet, but I would like a recommendation of...

26 May 2016 9,152 11 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 2,774 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 3,468 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 3,515 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 9,821 17 View

For corpus linguists: How do you calculate the ideal sample size for randomised searches?

I am carrying out research into "some" and "any" using the OEC, which I access via Sketch Engine. Many of my searches into specific patterns with "some" and "any" produce far too many results for...

29 September 2015 3,949 4 View