by sheila_admin | May 4, 2015 | English Usage, The ICAL TEFL Blog
I was asked this question the other day by a learner of English; quite simply, do we MAKE or DO a presentation? If you go online there are different stories, but as usual I went along to Google n-grams and checked out what they had to say. It’s interesting....
by sheila_admin | Apr 21, 2015 | Linguistics, Technology & TEFL
In the fields of computational linguistics an n-gram is a sequence of items from a corpus of language. An n-gram could be any combination of letters, phonemes, syllables or words, etc. Looking at n-grams is useful to help work out how language works and is used...
by sheila_admin | Jan 20, 2014 | English Usage, Finding TEFL Jobs, The ICAL TEFL Blog, Vocabulary & Spelling
Please… whatever else you do… spell GRAMMAR with an A at the end and not an E. GRAMM A R – yes GRAMM E R – no According to Google, a search for ‘grammer’ brings up over 4 million hits. However, things seem to be getting better....