The first book of its kind, Learner English on Computer is intended to provide linguists, students of linguistics and modern languages, and ELT professionals with a highly accessible and comprehensive introduction to the new and rapidly-expanding field of corpus-based research into learner language. Edited by the founder and co-ordinator of the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE), the book contains articles on all aspects of corpus compilation, design and analysis.

Collocations are both pervasive in language and difficult for language learners, even at an advanced level. In this book, these difficulties are for the first time comprehensively investigated.

Opportunities in Britain Workbook (Pre-Intermediate / Intermediate)
   Opportunities ensures the most effective language learning possible, by focussing specifically on the needs of the secondary school learner, especially those preparing for school-leaving exams.

 

 

In this third book in the series, Michael Lewis brings in a variety of colleagues who write about the "lexical approach" both from a theoretical and practical point of view.

An invaluable collection of activities and information for the contemporary ELT teacher. Clear references to the links between a lexical view of language and "learner independence" another much used and abused concept in ELT but never really implemented.

Cross-cultural challenges are part of today’s life. An e-learning course never stands alone. To a learner from a different cultural background than the instructor’s, an elearning course also acts as a window on another culture. The material may contain many clues about the social assumptions of the society in which it was created. Along with the material, the student may be faced with additional practices such as how to subscribe, and how to be supervised and graded. All these elements of learning can be quite valuable for the learner, even though they are not in the terms of reference. What is more, they cannot be customized away. And I would put it even more strongly: They should not necessarily be customized away. People in general, and learners in particular, are very good at making their own translation from what an e-learning tool offers into what they need from it.