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      Stelma, J. 2010. ‘What is communicative language teaching?’ in Introducing Applied Linguistics. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 53-59
      Book editor(s): Hunston, S. and D. Oakey.
      ISBN: 978-0415447676
      Summary: Looks at CLT from the three perspectives of competence, process and context.
      Entered by: University of Manchester (School of Education)
      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
      Charles, M. 2009. ‘Stance, interaction and the rhetorical patterns of restrictive adverbs: discourse roles of only, just, simply and merely’ in Academic Writing: At the Interface of Corpus and Discourse. London: Continuum, pp. 152-169
      Book editor(s): Charles, M., D. Pecorari and S. Hunston.
      ISBN: 978-1-84706-436-3
      Summary: This chapter examines restrictive adverbs, showing how they serve to construct a consensus between writer and reader and, in conjunction with markers of cause/effect and contrast, form part of extended discourse structures. Pedagogically, study of these adverbials can help students understand reader-writer interaction and the organisation of the text.
      Country of research: United Kingdom
      Institutional level: tertiary
      Entered by: University of Oxford (Language Centre)
      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
      Charles, M., D. Pecorari and S. Hunston. 2009. ‘Introduction: exploring the interface between corpus linguistics and discourse analysis’ in Academic Writing: At the Interface of Corpus and Discourse. London: Continuum, pp. 1-10
      Book editor(s): Charles, M., D. Pecorari and S. Hunston.
      ISBN: 978-1-84706-436-3
      Summary: The introduction to this edited collection argues that both corpus linguistics and discourse analysis have much to offer research on academic writing and advocates an integration of the two approaches in order to enrich the understanding of academic discourse.
      Country of research: United Kingdom
      Institutional level: tertiary
      Entered by: University of Oxford (Language Centre)
      Holliday, A.R. 2009. ‘Interrogating the concept of stereotypes in intercultural communication’ in Introducing Applied Linguistics: Concepts and Skills. London: Routledge, pp. 134-41
      Book editor(s): Hunston, S. and D. Oakey.
      ISBN: 415447674
      Summary: National cultural stereotypes are connected with racial prejudice.
      Entered by: Canterbury Christ Church University (Department of English and Language Studies)
      Adolphs, S. 2009. ‘Using a corpus to study spoken language’ in Introducing Applied Linguistics: Concepts and Skills. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 180-188
      Book editor(s): Hunston, S. and D. Oakey.
      ISBN: 978-0-415-44767-6
      Entered by: University of Nottingham (School of English Studies)
      Hewings, A., C. Coffin and S. North. 2009. ‘E-conferencing: corpus and discourse insights’ in Academic Writing: At the Interface of Corpus and Discourse. London: Continuum, pp. 129-151
      Book editor(s): Charles, M., D. Pecorari and S. Hunston.
      ISBN: 978-1-84706-436-3
      Summary: Examines writing at tertiary level in computer-mediated contexts.
      Country of research: United Kingdom
      Learners' background: United Kingdom
      Institutional level: tertiary
      Entered by: The Open University (Faculty of Education and Languages)
      Gardner, S.F. and J. Holmes. 2009. ‘Can I use headings in my essay? Section headings, macrostructures and genre families in the BAWE corpus of student writing’ in Academic Writing: At the Interface of Corpus and Discourse. London: Continuum, pp. 251-271
      Book editor(s): Charles, M., S. Hunston and D. Pecorari.
      ISBN: 9781847064363
      Summary: The interactive / frame markers of section headings and assignment macrostructures in 13 genre families of BAWE (British Academic Written English) corpus are analysed to illustrate corpus–discourse interface; to explore the extent to which macrostructure can be used to expedite genre identification; and to answer pedagogical questions (see title).
      Country of research: United Kingdom
      Learners' background: various
      Institutional level: tertiary
      Entered by: University of Birmingham (School of Education)
      Thompson, G. 2009. ‘Grammatical metaphor and success in academic writing’ in Introducing Applied Linguistics. London: Routledge, pp. 27-34
      Book editor(s): Hunston, S. and D. Oakey.
      ISBN: 9780415447683
      Country of research: United Kingdom
      Learners' background: various
      Institutional level: tertiary
      Entered by: University of Liverpool (School of English)