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The Official Website of Dr David Nunan, world-renowned linguist and best-selling author of English Language Teaching textbooks

Student resources: the handouts I've been using in my own teaching. The aim here is to give you copies of notes and handouts, and further guidance on how to complete assignments successfully. Teacher resources: These are materials I've developed for courses and conferences. They include PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, and useful links.

I'm a researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. My linguistics research includes work in semantics and pragmatics, text classification, and written-language structure. I'm a member of the board of trustees of the Center for Applied Linguistics and have served on the steering committee of the Coalition for Networked Information.

The digital blogging home of George Lakoff, professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Rockridge Institute.

Deborah Tannen is University Professor and Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, USA. She is the author of 19 books, including You Just Don't Understand, That's Not What I Meant!, Talking Voices, I Only Say This Because I Love You, and Talking from 9 to 5.

My research is into: practical natural language parsing (particularly disambiguation and efficiency), parser evaluation, large-scale grammar and lexicon development, automatic generation of text from semantic representations, and applications of natural language processing to real-world tasks.

I am Associate Professor of Linguistics in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LS&A), and in the Residential College (RC), both of which are at the University of Michigan (UM) in Ann Arbor. I'm a general practitioner of linguistics, and I have a rather expansive definition of what that includes.

John R. Rickford is Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University, where he has been a faculty member since 1980. From September 1998 he will also be Director of the Program in African and Afro-American Studies and Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor at Stanford.

I work on higher-order cognitive operations that distinguish human beings from other species and apparently emerge in the record of our descent during the Upper Paleolithic. Recently, I have focused on the basic cognitive operation of conceptual integration ("blending") and its role in language and grammar, reason, choice, judgment, imagination, ritual, literature, and creativity.

Patrick Hanks is one of Britain's leading lexicographers. He was responsible for the first editions of Collins English Dictionary, Cobuild, and the New Oxford Dictionary of English.

Here are some links to recent mss. Papers are in postscript format unless otherwise indicated.

This website is intended to provide user-friendly access to works by Robert de Beaugrande. Many should be accessible in university libraries, but others might not be for several reasons.

Books and articles on second language acquisition written by Stephen Krashen.

Second Language Acquisition Topics