How are words and idioms organized in a language? How are they learnt and stored?
Vocabulary explains the ways in which the various theories relating to these questions have been …

In this book Michael McCarthy and Ronald Carter describe the discoursal properties of
language and demonstrate what insights this approach can offer to the student and teacher of …

From Corpus to Classroom summarises and makes accessible recent work in corpus
research, focusing particularly on spoken data. It is based on analysis of corpora such as …

In “Ten Criteria for a Spoken Grammar,” Michael McCarthy and Ronald Carter discuss how
corpus analysis reveals important differences between spoken and written grammar in the …

The material in this book reviews work dating back to the vocabulary control movement in
the 1930s and also refers to more recent work on the role of lexis in language learning. Two …

The teaching of grammar is regularly based on written examples and on a proscriptive approach
to ‘correct’ English. This article argues that consideration by teachers of spoken English …

dynamic and rapidly growing area with a widely applied methodology. Over a decade on
from the first edition of the Handbook, this collection of 47 chapters from experts in key areas …

… alternative methodology outlined by Carter and McCarthy (1995b) based on what we call 'the
three I's', in contrast to the traditional 'three Ps' of presentation, practice and production. …

The lack of reproducibility of scientific studies has caused growing concern over the credibility
of claims of new discoveries based on ‘statistically significant’findings. There has been …

What is Discourse Analysis? Life is a constant flow of discourse – of language functioning in
one of the many contexts that together make up a culture. Consider an ordinary day. It will, …