10 things you can do with "10 things you didn't know last week"

10 things you didn't know last week is a digest of news snippets published every Friday on the BBC website. You can find it in a sectio...

Learners' use of collocations: insights from the research 2

"Perform surgery" or "carry out surgery"? Photo by Austin Samaritans  via Flickr [CC BY-SA 2.O] What kind of collocation...

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...

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...

SLA research: still in the shackles of traditional grammar?

Second Language Acquisition ( SLA ) research also needs a lexical revolution to free itself from the shackles of grammar tyranny.  Rant aler...