A few days ago, I had an encounter with an old student of mine at a shopping mall. He said, “Sir, you taught us Technical English almost nine years ago. Though I don’t remember everything, there is ...

With last week’s column titled Developing Speaking Skills, I discussed how candidates preparing for TOEFL and IELTS can develop their fluency and coherence, the first of the four grading criteria for ...

Lexical bundles are recurrent multi‐word sequences that play a pivotal role in structuring academic texts. These formulaic sequences, which range from fixed expressions to more flexible phrase-frames, ...