Grammar and Vocabulary Articles, interviews and teaching tips

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article An Interview with Raymond Murphy This interview by Jack Scholes originally appeared in New Routes Magazine – Disal, January 2009 (49 kB)
article An Interview with Helen Naylor Helen Naylor talks about the new Essential Grammar in Use CD-ROM (58 kB)
article English in the new world
by David Crystal
What is the fate of English in a global environment? (19 kB)
article The Martin Hewings Interview
by The TEFL Farm
Martin Hewings tells how he went about writing Advanced Grammar in Use (20 kB)
article 'Short answers' or 'Emphatic response tags?
by Jeff Stranks
A short exploration of pragmatics, centered around 'short answers'. (20 kB)
article Using corpora to develop materials on collocation
by Felicity O'Dell
An introduction to the process of producing Corpus-informed lists of collocations. (21 kB)