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Learners' use of collocations: insights from the research
By jjpacres via Flickr [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0] I often cite research in my talks so in this series of posts I would like to share some interestin...
The highway to fluency and a roundabout way to grammar
Photo by @GoldsteinBen via eltpics on Flickr A second lesson with two new pre-intermediate (A2) students (I usually put my private student...
A thank you letter from students
One of the pleasures of teaching lexically is when you see your students starting to incorporate i nto their speech and writing lexical ch...
In context or with co-text?
Photo by @Mr_Schenk via eltpics About a month ago I took part in a debate entitled Teaching Vocabulary: in or out of context where I was on...
Binomials
Photo by @aclil2climb via eltpics Binomials are two word expressions (strong collocations) such as "dead or alive", "give and...
Start teaching lexically in 2013
Many readers of this blog have read my rants about badly designed coursebook or digital activities and heard me moan about preoccupation wit...
News quiz 2012 - vocabulary review
Making history By Alexandre Inagaki via Flickr [CC BY 2.0] I hope you and your students enjoyed my traditional end-of-year news quiz I publ...
Traditional end-of-year news quiz 2012
Photo by Sandy Millin via eltpics A bit less heavy on political news this year and featuring more sports, showbiz and gossip items, here is ...
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