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Test your English: count vs. non-count nouns

Which of these sentences are grammatically correct? 1. My boss gave me a very useful feedback the other day. 2. Supermarkets have aisles for different foods. 3. I have loads of homeworks to do. Easy, huh? Well, carry on.

Communicative approach and noticing

Dear Luiz, I’ve read your post about knowing that and knowing how…I firmly believe it makes a big difference and most of advanced students present some inaccuracies in grammar deriving from the way they were exposed to the topic in their learning process. I have also done some research on Noticing and interface position. At a …

Things that maybe you didn’t know about despite and in spite of

Last week I attended an interesting talk on the role of corpora in language teaching and it reminded me a small-scale, corpus-based study I carried out in the late 90s as part of my coursework at Lancaster university. Here are some of the questions I sent out to investigate using the British National Corpus: 1. …