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      Nesi, H. 2010. ‘The virtual vocabulary notebook: the electronic dictionary as vocabulary learning tool’ in Developing Academic Literacy. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 213-226
      Book editor(s): Blue, G.
      ISBN: 978-3-03911-545-7
      Summary: This chapter discusses the way Chinese students use electronic dictionaries to learn vocabulary whilst studying at a British university.
      Country of research: United Kingdom
      Learners' background: China
      Institutional level: tertiary
      Entered by: Coventry University
      Gardezi, S.A. and H. Nesi. 2009. ‘Variation in the writing of economics students in Britain and Pakistan: the case of conjunctive ties’ in Academic Writing: At the Interface of Corpus and Discourse. London: Continuum, pp. 236-250
      Book editor(s): Charles, M., S. Hunston and D. Pecorari.
      ISBN: 9781847064363
      Summary: This chapter explores the influence of local academic cultures on signalling in academic discourse. It examines cohesive ties in the essays of undergraduate economics students from Britain and Pakistan, two groups who share the same L1 and who study in the same broad field, but who belong to different local discourse communities.
      Country of research: Pakistan
      Learners' background: Pakistan
      Institutional level: tertiary
      Entered by: Coventry University
      Nesi, H. and A. Boonmoh. 2009. ‘A close look at the use of pocket electronic dictionaries for receptive and productive purposes’ in Lexical Processing in Second Language Learners. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, pp. 67-81
      Book editor(s): Fitzpatrick, T. and A. Barfield.
      ISBN: 1847691528
      Summary: This chapter reports on an experiment to discover how science and technology students in Thailand used pocket electronic dictionaries to read in English and write in Thai.
      Country of research: Thailand
      Learners' background: Thailand
      Institutional level: tertiary
      Entered by: Coventry University
      Nesi, H. 2009. ‘Commentary: exploring materials for the study of L2 collocations’ in Researching Collocations in Another Language: Multiple Interpretations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 114-121
      Book editor(s): Barfield, A. and H. Gyllstad.
      ISBN: 978-0-230-20348-8
      Summary: This chapter is a commentary on the research into the design and use of collocational materials reported in the second part of "Researching Collocations in Another Language".
      Entered by: Coventry University
      Nesi, H. 2009. ‘EAP in the information age: what should we start teaching, and what can we stop teaching?’ in Emerging Issues in TEFL: Challenges for South Asia. Karachi, Pakistan: OUP Pakistan
      Book editor(s): Mansoor, S., A. Sikander, N. Hussain and N. Ahsan.
      ISBN: 978-0-19-547651-4
      Summary: This chapter discusses how the language needs of EAP students are changing in response to the use of new technologies.
      Institutional level: tertiary
      Entered by: Coventry University
      Holmes, J. and H. Nesi. 2009. ‘Verbal and mental processes in academic disciplines’ in Academic Writing: At the Interface of Corpus and Discourse. London: Continuum, pp. 58-72
      Book editor(s): Charles, M., S. Hunston and D. Pecorari.
      ISBN: 9781847064363
      Summary: This chapter uses keyword analysis to identify some discipline-specific clausal features in the writing of students of History, Physics, Medicine, Engineering and Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism, in order to further our understanding of the way disciplinary knowledge is conceptualised and expressed.
      Country of research: United Kingdom
      Learners' background: various
      Institutional level: tertiary
      Entered by: Coventry University
      Nesi, H. and H. Basturkmen. 2009. ‘Lexical bundles and discourse signalling in academic lectures’ in Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 23-44
      Book editor(s): Mahlberg, M. and J. Flowerdew.
      ISBN: 978 90 272 2247 3
      Summary: This chapter investigates the cohesive role of lexical bundles in a corpus of 160 university lectures (120 from the BASE corpus and 40 from MICASE). The majority of frequently occurring bundles were found to be used to signal discourse relations.
      Institutional level: tertiary
      Entered by: Coventry University
      Boonmoh, A. 2009. The Use of Pocket Electronic Dictionaries by Thai Learners of English.
      Supervisor(s): Nesi, H. and R. Smith
      Awarding institution: University of Warwick
      Thesis type: PhD
      Entered by: University of Warwick (Centre for Applied Linguistics)
      Nesi, H. 2009. ‘A multidimensional analysis of student writing across levels and disciplines’ in Taking the Measure of Applied Linguistics: Proceedings of the BAAL Annual Conference. London: BAAL/Scitsiugnil Press
      Editor(s): Edwardes, M.
      URL: http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/researchnet/elphe/Documents/Nesi-BAAL0-abstract-formatted.pdf
      Summary: This paper describes the outcomes of multidimensional analysis of the BAWE corpus, and the linguistic differences such analysis reveals between genres, levels and disciplinary groupings.
      Country of research: United Kingdom
      Institutional level: tertiary
      Entered by: Coventry University
      Nesi, H. 2008. ‘Dictionaries in electronic form’ in The Oxford History of English Lexicography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 458-478
      Book editor(s): Cowie, A.P.
      ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-19-928562-4
      Summary: This chapter describes the history of the electronic dictionary, and particularly on monolingual or bilingual dictionaries intended for use by English speakers? whether natives or foreign learners. It considers electronic dictionaries accessible via hand-held mobile devices, laptop or desktop computers, and the internet.
      Entered by: Coventry University