This book explores how corpora can be employed to design language curricula both for English as a Foreign/Second Language and for other languages. It is an essential and accesible guide for students and researchers in TESOL, Applied Linguistics, ELT, and materials design, as well as language teachers and curriculum designers.  Meer

This book explores how corpora can be employed to design language curricula both for English as a Foreign/Second Language and for other languages. It is an essential and accesible guide for students and researchers in TESOL, Applied Linguistics, ELT, and materials design, as well as language teachers and curriculum designers.  Meer

This book investigates the content of the grammar syllabuses typically employed in mainstream English Language Teaching. Using a mixed-methods approach, the author examines how the syllabuses used in coursebooks are actually constructed, how they evolved and how valid their contents are as a basis for teaching.  Meer

This book investigates the content of the grammar syllabuses typically employed in mainstream English Language Teaching. Using a mixed-methods approach, the author examines how the syllabuses used in coursebooks are actually constructed, how they evolved and how valid their contents are as a basis for teaching.  Meer

concise introduction to the artist's life and work, written by an established expert on British modern art. Includes a biographical overview and shorter chapters explore key aspects of her work in more depth.  Meer

Traditionally, when the human sciences consider foundational issues such as epistemology and method, they do so by theorising them. Ethnomethodology, however, attempts to make such foundational matters a focus of attention, and directly enquires into them.  Meer

Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis have made major inroads into the disciplines that make up the social sciences. Although commonly run together under the title of EMCA, what their relationship is to one another remains as elusive as the relationship between their respective founders, Harold Garfinkel and Harvey Sacks.  Meer

This book offers historical and contemporary international analysis of fraud and corruption in sport, including a diverse range of cases from the sporting world including football, cricket, horse racing and boxing.  Meer