Giga teachers take time off for development
Teachers from all over Catania got together on Friday 27 October for an important appointment with Cambridge Italy.
The venue was the Sheraton Hotel Catania, and Michael McCarthy, author of contemporary Cambridge University publications, gave a presentation on the use of English Corpus in the study and development of learner English today.
Michael McCarthy
Michael McCarthy is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is also Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University and at the University of Limerick, Ireland.
He is the author of many titles of interest to teachers, including Spoken Language and Applied Linguistics. Well known as an expert on the teaching and learning of vocabulary, he is a co-author of the basic and upper-intermediate levels of Vocabulary in Use, and is also Academic Consultant to the Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs and the Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms. He is co-author of the 2 latest successful corpus-informed publications by Cambridge University Press: Touchstone and Cambridge Grammar of English.
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/
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