A ‘key to all quotations’? A corpus-based parameter model of intertextuality
in Literary and Linguistic Computing
September 2010; published online May 2010.
Journal Article. Subjects: linguistics; language teaching and learning; literature; computing. 7851 words.
Categorization and taxonomy are topical issues in intertextuality studies. Instead of increasing the number of overlapping or contradictory definitions (often established with reference to limited...
‘A basic starter pack’: the TESOL Certificate as a course in survival
in ELT Journal
April 2013; published online January 2013.
Journal Article. Subjects: language acquisition; teaching English as a foreign or second language. 4528 words.
Relying on data both from recent TESOL Certificate trainees and from experienced teachers, this paper examines ways in which a focus on survival during TESOL Certificate courses indicates a...
‘A Few Simple Words’ of Interior Monologue in Ulysses: Reconfiguring the Evidence
in Literary and Linguistic Computing
June 1996.
Journal Article. Subjects: linguistics; language teaching and learning; literature; computing. 0 words.
A study of interior monologue in James Joyce's Ulysses that discriminates between the language of Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom, and Leopold Bloom by the use of literary and computational methods...
A. S. Hornby and 50 years of the Hornby Trust
in ELT Journal
January 2012; published online January 2012.
Journal Article. Subjects: language acquisition; teaching English as a foreign or second language. 4004 words.
A. S. Hornby can justly be considered the ‘father’ of UK-based ELT. He was the founder and first Editor of English Language Teaching (now known as ELT Journal); he established the ground rules for...
‘A thing not beginning and not ending’: using digital tools to distant-read Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans
in Literary and Linguistic Computing
September 2008; published online September 2008.
Journal Article. Subjects: linguistics; language teaching and learning; literature; computing. 9656 words.
The particular reading difficulties engendered by the complicated patterns of repetition in The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein make it almost impossible to read this text in a traditional,...
An A–Z of ELT. A Dictionary of Terms and Concepts used in English Language Teaching
in ELT Journal
July 2007; published online July 2007.
Journal Article. Subjects: language acquisition; teaching English as a foreign or second language. 899 words.
Academic digital library and contents in Japan
in Literary and Linguistic Computing
April 1999; published online April 1999.
Journal Article. Subjects: linguistics; language teaching and learning; literature; computing. 0 words.
This paper describes the present digital activities of the university and inter-university research institute in Japan. Three typical activities of the digital library system for Japanese...
Access
in Literary and Linguistic Computing
April 2009; published online April 2009.
Journal Article. Subjects: linguistics; language teaching and learning; literature; computing. 9871 words.
Digital editions have some distinct features that are not present in digital libraries. Therefore it is somewhat worrisome that there are far more digital libraries than digital editions. This essay...
Accountable professional practice in ELT
in ELT Journal
April 2006; published online April 2006.
Journal Article. Subjects: language acquisition; teaching English as a foreign or second language. 3843 words.
Professionalism is widely thought to be desirable in ELT, and at the same time institutions are taking seriously the need to evaluate their teachers. This article presents a general approach to...
Acknowledgement as a key to teacher learning
in ELT Journal
January 2007; published online January 2007.
Journal Article. Subjects: language acquisition; teaching English as a foreign or second language. 3333 words.
In this article I introduce the concept of ‘acknowledgement’ and explore the role which it plays in facilitating teacher learning. Acknowledgement is the validation or recognition of the teacher,...