Bøger af Paul McPherron

This is a practical guide to planning, conducting and presenting a sociolinguistic research project. It presents a range of qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis methods, including surveys, interviews and corpora, supported by examples from both published researchers and student projects.

Based on ethnographic and policy data collected over a ten-year span at a university in the People's Republic of China, this book analyses the history of English Language Teaching (ELT) polices in Chinese higher education.

Why do questions about idioms often leave us "tongue-tied"? This book takes a look at learning and teaching idioms from two perspectives. First is a survey of recent work on learning and teaching idioms from diverse perspectives in the linguistics and educational research literature. Second is a summary and critique of idiom textbooks and classroom practices from around the world.