Online Versions of Papers and Articles |
This collects various papers, reviews etc I have written,
mostly about language teaching, Chomsky, CALL, Second Language Acquisition (SLA), multi-competence or
writing systems. Some have appeared in obscure places or not at all
or a long time ago (some may appear eventually in revised forms), but I feel are worth making available to a wider audience, plus papers in progress. My straightforward published books and articles
are listed in Publications
List. The texts here may differ
marginally from the published form and also some tables/phonetics symbols etc may not have transferred well to the web; they are unedited (tempting
as it is!) except for formatting. Other materials on
SLA and language teaching can be found in SLA
Topics, on
writing in Writing System
Topics and on street signs in The Language of the Street.
Note: Home videos of odds and ends can be found on the YouTube site Itsallinaword, and on TESOLacademic. And a video of a university public lecture is at Words Matter. And bits are on Twitter. |
2021 ******* 2010s ******* Handmade: Review of Elena Pagliarini et al., “Children’s First Handwriting Productions Show a Rhythmic Structure”,’ Nature Scientific Reports 7, no. 5,516 (2017). Inference, 3, 3, 2017 link More Galilean Challenges: a letter in response to Chomsky "The Galilean Challenge" Inference 3, 2 (link) 2017 Premises of Multi-competence In Cook, V. & Li Wei (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistics Multi-Competence (2016)Background to the English Writing System In V. Cook and D. Ryan (eds) (2016) The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System Transfer and the relationships between the languages of multi-competence 2016 Communication is a worn-out word 2014 Contact (link) The punctuation of the street 2014 ELF: central or atypical form of SLA? 2013 Key issues in SLA 2012 Starting Applied Linguistics research 2012 Presenting Applied Linguistics Research 2012 Definition of native speaker 2012 Linguistic relativity & language teaching 2011 Relating language and cognition - the speaker of one language 2011 TEFL in Europe 2011 Consequences of the multi-competence perspective for second language acquisition research (rejected) 2011 Prolegomena to SLA Research 2010 The relationship between L1 and L2 acquisition revisited 2010 Questioning traditional assumptions in language teaching 2010 printed version Who is the language user? Multi-competence and foreign language teaching 2010 TESOL NNEST Blog 2010 |
Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) type
pieces |
Universal Grammar considered as a parser that acquires language unpublished circa 1990 |
Designing CALL programs for communicative language teaching 1988 |
Designing a BASIC Parser for CALL CALICO Journal 1988 |
Natural language processing by computer and language teaching System 1986 |
Structure drills on a ZX81 Modern English Teacher 1983 |
******* 1980s *******
The relevance of grammar in the applied linguistics of language teaching Trinity College Dublin Occasional Papers, 22, 1989
Universal Grammar and the Language Classroom System 1989
Extrapolation in Micro-Artificial Languages 1988
The Basis for an Experimental Approach to Second Language Research 1986
Do L2 Learners have a cognitive deficit? 1986
Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition 1985
Kategorisierung und Fremdsprachenerwerb, in Gegenwartige Probleme and Aufgaben der Fremdsprachen-psychologie, Karl Marx University, Leipzig, 1982, 65-70
Interaction sequences in L2 learning and teaching, IRAL Special Issue 1982
Some uses for second language learning research 1981 NY Academy of Science
Second language acquisition from an interactionist viewpoint ISB-U 1981
An interactional framework for second Language Learning ms, circa 1981
Reciprocal language teaching: another alternative, Modern English Teacher 1989
"How To" exercises, ETAS 1700
What should language teaching be about? ELTJ 1983
Lost in a maze ca 1982
Some assumptions in the design of courses Trier 1983
Crossover dialogues, 1983
Structure drills and the language learner CMLR, 1982
Teaching vocabulary MET 1981
Two Fables for our Time: Designing Communicative Syllabuses Dunsford Papers, 1981
Making up characters for roleplay World Language English 1981
We have ways of making you talk EFL Bulletin 1980
The English are only human ELTJ 1979
Some ways of organising language AVLJ 1978
Creative aspect of language use AVLJ 1970
*** 1970s and beyond ***
First and Second Language Learning CILT 1979
Aspects of memory in secondary school language learners ISB Utrecht 1979
Survey of SLA learning, CILTR 1978
Language processes and language teaching 1977
Cognitive Processes in Second Language Learning 1977
A Note on Indirect Objects1976
Strategies in the comprehension of relative clauses 1975
Is explanatory adequacy adequate? 1974
The Comparison of Language Development in Native Children and Foreign Adults 1973
Which came first - the language or the concept? 1972
How children learn language 1971
Freedom and Control in Language Teaching Materials BAAL Seminar, York 1970
The analogy between first and second language learning 1969
Some types of oral structure drill 1968
Did You Say Stop? 1956 (juvenilia)
REVIEWS ETC
Review of A. Davies An Introduction to Applied Linguistics, System, 1999
Review of N. Smith and M. Tsimpli The Mind of a Savant, The Clarion, 1995
Review of Peter Skehan A Cognitive Approach to Learning Language, 1998
Review of R. Bayley & D.R. Preston Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation, John Benjamins 1996
The meaning of the word 'schizophrenic' comment sent occasionally to newspapers etc
Sam is the cat that is blackVivian.Cook@ncl.ac.uk