Research assistants (AR)

Graham Francis Burton

Faculty of Education

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Short bio

Academic qualifications:
– PhD Applied Linguistics (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland)
– MA Applied Linguistics (University of Birmingham, UK)
– BA Linguistics and Philosophy (University of Essex, UK)

Courses

English Language Teaching-L3: Activities for young and very young learners of English with a focus on oral skills (Lab.)

11448B · L-LIN/12 · LM-85 bis Education Ladin section · EN

English Language Teaching-L3: Activities for young and very young learners of English with a focus on oral skills (Lab.)

11448B · L-LIN/12 · LM-85 bis Education Italian section · EN

Main Research Areas

English Language Teaching
Corpus linguistics
Pedagogical grammar
The writing and development of teaching materials for EFL
Phonology and the teaching of pronunciation
L2 literacy and phonics

Publications

Mastellotto, L. & Burton, G. (2018). ‘Storytelling’. In L. Dozza (ed.), Maestra Natura. Per una pedagogia esperienziale e co-partecipata. Bergamo: Zeroseiup, pp. 137–146.

Burton, G. (2017). Personal Best: B1+ Student’s Book. Oxford: Richmond ELT (Santillana).

Hall, D. & Burton, G. (2020). How to Write Grammar Presentations and Practice. Oxford: ELT Teacher 2 Writer

Burton, G. (2013). ‘Product plus process’. English Teaching Professional 86

Burton, G. (2012). ‘Corpora and coursebooks: destined to be strangers forever?’. Corpora 7(1), pp. 91–108

Burton, G. (2020). Glorious graphemes: linking pronunciation and spelling. English Teaching Professional 126

Burton, G. (2013). ‘Cross linguistic influence in non-native languages: explaining lexical transfer using language production models’. International Journal of Multilingualism 10(1), pp. 46–59

Burton, G. (2020). Key Concept: Grammar. ELT Journal 72(2), pp. 198–201.

Burton, G. (2021). ‘Grammar Syllabus’. In The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley.

Burton, G. (in press). ‘Selecting language for materials development’. In J. Norton and H. Buchanan (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Materials Development. Oxford: Routledge.

Burton, G. (in press). What can a corpus tell us about grammar?’ in A. O’Keeffe and M. McCarthy (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics (2nd ed.). Oxford: Routledge.

Burton, G. (2022). Rehabilitating the ELT conditional system. ELT Journal.

Burton, G. (2021). ‘Are you going to go?’ Putting a pedagogical grammar rule under the corpus spotlight. Glottodidactica 48(1), pp. 7–26