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Some extracts from Jean Coussins’ “English is not enough”

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Source: (URL) A NATIONAL RECOVERY PROGRAMME FOR LANGUAGES. A framework proposal from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages, published 4 March 2019 Some extracts Britain, and its government, must remember that only six per cent of the world’s population are native English speakers and 75 per cent speak no English at all. The amount … Read more

Free copy of our latest paper in Computer Assisted Language Learning

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Our article, Language teachers’ perceptions on the use of OER language processing technologies in MALL, has just been published on Computer Assisted Language Learning Journal, Taylor & Francis Online. 50 free eprints can be downloaded from the following URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/epWFWhVAGFZ4yRSIaMcA/full Get yours now!!!! Abstract Combined with the ubiquity and constant connectivity of mobile devices, and with … Read more

Wordclouds of UK 2017 election manifestos

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Click images for enlarged versions Conservative party manifesto: https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/manifesto2017/Manifesto2017.pdf Labour party manifesto: http://www.labour.org.uk/page/-/Images/manifesto-2017/Labour%20Manifesto%202017.pdf Libdem party manifesto: http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/themes/5909d4366ad575794c000000/attachments/original/1495020157/Manifesto-Final.pdf?1495020157 Wordclouds generated with http://www.wordclouds.com/  Read my research on the construction of immigrants in the UK legislation and admin informative texts: Constructing immigrants in UK legislation and Administration informative texts: A corpus-driven study (2007–2011), Discourse & Society, 28,1,81-103