Source: http://ec-concord.ied.edu.hk/TimJohns/
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 14:27:42+00:00

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This is a collection of Tim Johns’ popular Kibbitzers for language teaching and learning. Since his website is no longer available after he passed away in 2009, as his former PhD student, I’m hosting these pages for him, so that we can still all benefit from his wisdoms.
This page allows you to kibbitz the discussions of language points (lexical, syntactic and discoursal) that take place in one-to-one consultations when students bring us their written drafts for discussion. In many cases the revision is supported by concordance data: in other cases it employs intuition: but in all cases it depends on the joint 'negotiation' of meaning by consultant and student.
Connotation: incessant v. steadfast (15th April 1996).
Blending: as-clause & that-clause (29th April 1996).
Collocation: take (on) a job (11th May 1996).
Topicalisation: As to etc. (23rd May 1996).
By v. Using (5th June 1996).
Data: Singular or Plural? (16th June 1996 & 3rd March 1997).
Logical Connectives: Reason-result or Part-whole? (26th June 1996).
Illustrate v. Account for/Explain (17th July 1996).
Can a superconductor expel a magnetic field? (29th July 1996).
Population which or Population who? (26th August 1996).
Predict v. Forecast (8th September 1996).
Offering Insights (21st October 1996).
Enable v. Facilitate (5th November 1996).
Premature Evaluation (12th November 1996).
Which Verb for the Adverb? (11th December 1996).
Composing or Compiling Information? (17th February 1997).
Closely related or Deeply related? (2nd March 1997).
So far v. Hitherto (26th March 1997).
The Overworked 'It' (Part One) (21st April 1997).
Cross-reference of relative pronouns (25th April 1997).
Reason to v. Reason for (4th May 1997).
Structuring a list (14th May 1997).
Improve (on) (29th May 1997).
Topic prominence (9th August 1997).
In Fact (27th October 1997).
Comparing Like with Like (23rd Novermber 1997).
Facts and Ideas (15th December 1997).
Making Measurements (22nd December 1997).
Heavy Subjects (7th January 1998).
Read widely v. widely read (14th January 1998).
Academic Modesty (18th January 1998).
By contrast, etc. (1st February 1998).
Taking Part in Activities (14th February 1998).
The Overworked 'It' (Part Two) (5th March 1998).
Making a Transition (7th April 1998).
Starting from the Right Place (13th May 1998).
Adding Feet to the Snake (18th May 1998).
It is recommended that ... (22nd May 1998).
Emphatic 'do' (28th May 1998).

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