Intl Conference 2008: Clara Moreira

Clara Moreira

Graduate EFL teacher at Pedagogical University “Pablo Lafargue”, Havana. Teacher trainer at the same University. Post graduate courses in English Language Teaching Methodology, Linguistics and English Literature. Research Projects and Publications on Evaluation, Linguistics and Comparative Typology of English and Spanish. Exchange Projects in Canada and Ucrania. Presentations in Teacher´s Conferences. At present, TOEFL trainer and professor at the Northamerican Institute, Santiago and teacher trainer at UAH.

Corpus Linguistics
Corpus linguistics: a new window to textbooks and teachers Words do not exist in isolation.They create their existence by collocating with other words. The aim of the present paper is to analyze how the application of corpus data challenges current views about language, specifically the lack of distinction between lexis and grammar.


The Best Dictionary
The best dictionary - fact or fiction? Learner´s dictionaries maximize learning independence in students by offering the opportunity to integrate all the features of words in real use. A frequent question students ask is: "What is the best dictionary?" The present paper tries to answer this question by looking at the relevant features of four of the major pedagogical English dictionaries available.

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