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The Modern Language Journal | 1995

Grammar and the language teacher

L. Kathy Heilenman; Martin Bygate; Alan Tonkyn; Eddie Williams

Designed to complement the Macmillan Short Course Programme, these photocopiable worksheets are a grammar resource for English language teachers. They are aimed at intermediate level English learners.


Language Testing | 1985

Book reviews: Finocchiaro, M. and Sako, S. 1983: Foreign language testing- a practical approach. New York: Regents Publishing Co. xxii + 242 pp. ISBN 0-88345-362-2

Alan Tonkyn

room testing handbooks as those of Harrison (1983) and Madsen (1983). The book consists of four main parts. The first, entitled ’An overview’, deals with such basic matters as the purposes of evaluation, different types of foreign language test (here listed as: achievement, proficiency, diagnostic and aptitude tests), some criteria according to which tests are judged (validity, reliability, comprehensiveness and practicality), and the uses to which test results can be put. The second part, ’The multiple roles of the classroom teacher’, in fact deals with two roles: those of informal test writer and user, and of fomal test user. The discussion of the former role in Chapter 7 gives the authors an opportunity to run fairly quickly through such things


Applied Linguistics | 2000

Measuring spoken language: a unit for all reasons

Pauline Foster; Alan Tonkyn; Gillian Wigglesworth


Archive | 1991

Talking heads and shifting bottoms: the ethnography of academic seminars

Clare Furneaux; C Locke; P Robinson; Alan Tonkyn


British Educational Research Journal | 2016

Motivational trajectories for early language learning across the primary–secondary school transition

Suzanne Graham; Louise Courtney; Alan Tonkyn; Theodoros Marinis


Language Learning & Language Teaching (MS) | 2012

Measuring and Perceiving Changes in Oral Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency: Examining Instructed Learners' Short-Term Gains.

Alan Tonkyn


Applied Linguistics | 2015

Individual Differences in Early Language Learning: A Study of English Learners of French

Louise Courtney; Suzanne Graham; Alan Tonkyn; Theodoros Marinis


Archive | 2012

Measuring and perceiving changes in oral complexity, accuracy and fluency

Alan Tonkyn


Archive | 2014

Primary Modern Languages: the impact of teaching approaches on attainment and preparedness for secondary school language learning

Suzanne Graham; Louise Courtney; Theo Marinis; Alan Tonkyn


Archive | 1993

The EAP teacher: prophet of doom or eternal optimist? EAP teachers' predictions of students' success

Alan Tonkyn; C Locke; P Robinson; Clare Furneaux

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University of West London

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