By @eannegrenoble |  eltpics  on Flickr In the middle of the market where I go for my weekly vegetable shopping there is a stall wher...

One of the pleasures of teaching lexically is when you see your students starting to incorporate i nto their speech and writing  lexical ch...

Penny Ur was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire ) for services to English Language Teaching earlier this year and a...

Photo by Victoria Boobyer via eltpics   Do your students often say "it's depend..." or things like "it's not co...

Having recently returned from another summer school in Baku, Azerbaijan I reproduce here an article originally written for the British Coun...

Second Language Acquisition ( SLA ) research also needs a lexical revolution to free itself from the shackles of grammar tyranny.  Rant ale...

Photo by @Mr_Schenk via eltpics About a month ago I took part in a debate entitled Teaching Vocabulary: in or out of context where I ...

Yesterday I completed the online feedback questionnaire for the IATEFL 2013 conference, which took place earlier this month in Liverpool , a...

This year sees the 20th anniversary of the publication of Michael Lewis's "The Lexical Approach", the book that has changed ...

Sinclair's seminal work - the bible of corpus linguistics In this post I would like to defend linguistic corpora and their relevanc...

Photo by @aclil2climb via eltpics Binomials are two word expressions (strong collocations) such as "dead or alive", "give...

This is a somewhat belated reaction to Catherine Walter's article which appeared in the Learning English section of Guardian last autumn...

Many readers of this blog have read my rants about badly designed coursebook or digital activities and heard me moan about preoccupation w...

Making history By Alexandre Inagaki  via Flickr [CC BY 2.0] I hope you and your students enjoyed my traditional end-of-year news quiz ...

Photo by Sandy Millin via eltpics A bit less heavy on political news this year and featuring more sports, showbiz and gossip items, here...

and tips for new bloggers Photo by aclil2climb via eltpics This post is written in response to Adam Simpson's blogchallenge , ...

A summary of the closing plenary (Mis)-Applied Linguistics at the TESOL France colloquium on 18 November 2012 Chia explaining 'ste...

I have recently received an email from a colleague, an EFL teacher in Israel, about how her students find it difficult differentiating betwe...

A classic collocation gap-fill activity I don't why I haven't posted this earlier because this is my favourite song when it comes...

Photo by Cleo Phas August till about mid-October is the time of the year when I enjoy a bit of a lull at work and all my usual student...

What should I do with these? Photo by Tzvi Meller I’ve always envied people who can whip up a blog post straight after returning from ...

Image by photosteve101   on  Flickr www.planetofsuccess.com/blog Diigo is a social bookmarking tool which allows you to save and acces...

Let's start with a warmer... Which of these tasks or exercises do you normally see in coursebooks? Look at the highlighted ...

Introducing students to the idea of lexical priming and a web tool called Netspeak Photo by Tzvi Meller In my previous post from the ...