He has also worked in the fields of Second Language Acquisition, Discourse Analysis, lexis, teaching and methodology. Selected publications are given below. Publications forthcoming 2002. A comparative study of conventional indirectness in British English and Peninsular Spanish. With Rosina M rquez Reiter and Isobel Rainey.
Machines get clever at testing .
Guest Editorial for the Guardian Weekly TEFL Supplement, in Association with the BBC World Service. 17th May. 2001. Communicative Language Testing. Bridging the Gap between Teacher and Learner. The 'communicative' legacy in language testing.