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Dictionary Recommendations
Posted by: Mark Stoneman on: May 1, 2009
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For dictionary recommendations, please see my posts on Learning English. I have one for upper intermediate and advanced students, and another for advanced beginner and lower intermediate students.
Strunk and White’s Elements of Style Turns 50
Posted by: Mark Stoneman on: April 17, 2009
Strunk and White’s classic Elements of Style turned fifty on Thursday. You can learn more at NPR. And check out Marc Acito’s funny “Who Needs A Manual To Write Real Good?” In it he breaks all kinds of rules in an enjoyably backwards homage to the masters.
ESL: Grammar Exercises for Upper Intermediate and Advanced Students
Posted by: Mark Stoneman on: March 9, 2009
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I posted my grammar recommendation for upper intermediate and advanced students to Learning English. Which book? Betty Azar’s, of course.
I’m making these recommendations right now, because one 8-week semi-intensive session at LADO ended and another is beginning. I want students who I will no longer see to be able to continue studying, and I am [...]
ESL Textbook Recommendations
Posted by: Mark Stoneman on: March 6, 2009
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I posted my grammar textbook recommendations for beginning and intermediate students to Learning English, a blog that mostly contains information specifically for my ESL students.
The Vocabulary of Grammar
Posted by: Mark Stoneman on: July 30, 2008
Looking back, I am surprised at how easy it was for me to get through high school and many college courses without knowing a lot of basic vocabulary related to English grammar. I knew English grammar intuitively, and I could write, but I could not talk about grammar. I am lucky I knew enough intuitively, [...]
Dictionaries Can Tell You How to Use Words
Posted by: Mark Stoneman on: December 8, 2007
I frequently encounter situations in which students pick the right word, but use it improperly in their sentence. If you are even the slightest bit unsure about how to use a word, look it up. This common-sense advice is hard to follow sometimes, because many dictionaries only give you the meaning of a word. Fortunately, [...]
My Language Twitter
- mstoneman_esl: @kalinagoenglish The existence of class and the use of the word say nothing about social mobility. Maybe you're conflating class and caste?
- mstoneman_esl: @kalinagoenglish Most countries, I'd say, though I've found Europeans to be more up front with the language of class than Americans are.
- mstoneman_esl: @Ente81 Schwierig, weil es immer noch so viele Vorurteile darüber gibt, auch unter mutmasslichen aufgekärten, akademischen Kreisen.
- mstoneman_esl: RT @chronicle: English prof writes of the imaginary golden age when all students wrote beautifully and loved doing it. http://bit.ly/4mkKKf
- mstoneman_esl: Interesting article about language and US-China relations. http://bit.ly/1ZUGNf (Washington Post)
