English Unlimited is a six-level (A1 to C1) goals-based course for adults. Centred on purposeful, real-life objectives, it prepares learners to use English independently for global communication. The ...

Description Contents Resources Courses About the Authors Andrew Radford´s textbook, Minimalist Syntax, provides a concise, clear, and accessible introduction to syntactic theory, drawing on the key co...

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 CANCODE and Cambridge Internat...

A resource book of supplementary materials for the teaching of grammar through songs. Singing Grammar is part of the Cambridge Copy Collection. It is a resource book of supplementary materials for the...

English Unlimited is a six-level (A1 to C1) goals-based course for adults. Centred on purposeful, real-life objectives, it prepares learners to use English independently for global communication. The ...

This second edition updates a course which has proven to be a perfect fit for classes the world over. The Teacher´s Resource Book contains the content for the A and B Combos for Starter level in one v...

Discourse analysis is a term that has come to have different interpretations for scholars working in different disciplines. For a sociolinguist, it is concerned mainly with the structure of social int...

A renewed interest in grammar, from pedagogical and research perspectives, has created the need for new approaches to assessing the grammatical ability of language learners. This book presents a compr...

This new edition of Richard Hudson´s widely acclaimed textbook Sociolinguistics will be welcomed by students and teachers alike. To reflect changes in the field since publication of the first edition ...

This is a new introduction to the study of the relation between gender and language use, written by two of the leading experts in the field. It covers the main topics, beginning with a clear discussio...

This volume introduces theoretical and empirical bases for defining English language learning levels in functional ‘Can Do’ terms. This book introduces the theoretical and empirical bases for the def...

This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion. Each unit includes short sections of explanation with examples, followed by stimulating practice exe...

This bestselling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Yule presents information in bite-sized sections, cl...

The papers in this volume represent the views of a range of experts in a variety of language-related disciplines on the role which context plays in language learning and language understanding. The au...

This textbook, first published in 2004, provides a concise, clear, and accessible introduction to current syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky´s Minimalist Program. Assuming little...

Research into metaphor has become one of the fastest-growing and important areas of language research over the past twenty years, and metaphor is now recognized as central to language and language use...

This comprehensive textbook is an engaging introduction to syntax. Clearly organized and accessible, it provides students with a thorough grounding in the analysis of syntactic structure using data fr...

Explains and illustrates how teachers can use corpora to create classroom materials and activities to address specific class needs. Using Corpora in the Language Classroom shows teachers how to use c...

This volume explores how a second language is acquired and what learners must do in order to achieve proficiency. The paperback edition is a collection of original essays that approaches second langua...

This book uses empirical evidence taken from an international survey of over 1,700 teachers and educational managers, over a period of six years, to examine their views of research, whether they read ...

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been attracting the attention of researchers, curriculum developers, teacher trainers and language teachers for many years. However, much of the available liter...

This is an updated and substantially revised edition of Peter Matthews´s well-known Morphology, first published in 1974. It includes chapters on inflectional and lexical morphology, derivational proce...

This series of learning objectives offers all practitioners a description of the language needed to assure a learner´s ability to deal with the challenges presented by everyday communication.

This volume introduces a new concept, ´criterial features´, for the learning, teaching and testing of English as a second language. The work is based on research conducted within the English Profile P...

Written in readable, vivid, non-technical prose, this book, first published in 2007, presents the highly respected scholarly research that forms the foundation for Deborah Tannen´s best-selling books ...

Distance learning presents language teachers and learners with a new set of challenges, opportunities and practical realities. This book presents a comprehensive overview of important issues within th...

This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to linguistics, based on analysis of large databases of real language exampl...

Complete Key for Schools is official preparation for the Cambridge English: Key (KET) for Schools exam. It combines the very best in contemporary classroom practice with engaging topics aimed at young...

This comprehensive 2002 book examines approaches to teaching students who aim to make the leap from ´advanced´ or ´superior´ proficiency in a foreign language to ´near-native´ ability. While there are...

This 1986 textbook presents an account of the main concerns, problems and theoretical and practical issues raised by second language acquisition research. Research in this field had been mainly pedago...

This book provides a comprehensive account of conversation in English and its implications for the ELT classroom. After a general overview and definition of conversation it provides the reader with a...

This second edition updates a course which has proven to be a perfect fit for classes the world over. The Teacher´s Resource Book contains the content for Combos 2A and 2B in one volume. All unit numb...