Interviews | Authors/Articles | ELT - Cambridge University Press

Interviews

Articles

Raymond Murphy

Interview with Raymond Murphy by Jack Scholes for New Routes Magazine - Disal, January 2009 JS: First of all, could you please tell us a little bit about your background and how and why you first...
Santiago Remacha Esteras

Santiago Remacha Esteras, author of Infotech: English for computer users, talks about English language teaching and computers. Motivating students through computers … Clearly the field of computing ...
Michael McCarthy I

NR: What does a second language learner exactly know about the language?MMC: Yes, I think this is a good question because over the last twenty or thirty years we’ve changed the way we look at learners...
Michael McCarthy II

Michael McCarthy is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, and has an international reputation in the field of vocabulary studies and in the applications of discourse analys...
Mark Hancock

Songs and Games in the Language Classroom Mark Hancock has written two books in the Cambridge Copy Collection, Singing Grammar and Pronunciation Games. We spoke to Mark about the thinking behind thes...
Jack C. Richards

Dr. Jack C. Richards, a well-known applied linguist, teacher educator and textbook author, whose classroom texts and professional books are used by teachers and students all around the world, kindly t...
John Crowther-Alwyn

John Crowther-Alwyn has written two books in the Cambridge Copy Collection: Business Roles and Business Roles 2. Each book provides 12 simulations with prescribed roles that leave students free to co...
Herbert Puchta

The internationally renowned young learners expert, Dr. Herbert Puchta, recently toured Brazil under the auspices of Cambridge University Press and kindly offered this exclusive interview for New Rout...
Donald Freeman

Donald is an old friend of Brazil\'s. He has been here a number of times since his first visit the late \"eighties\", Which included a year living and working in São Paulo (Associação Alumini). This i...
Diana Hicks

NR: Over the past few years you have been particularly interested in the teaching of English to adolescent learners. Why are you concerned with this particular age?DH: Many years ago I trained to be a...
David Crystal

Professor David Crystal OBE, internationally renowned writer, lecturer, broadcaster and one of the world's foremost authorities on language, kindly took time out during his recent flying visit to Braz...
Chuck Sandy

NR: How much does teaching a language have to do with communication?CS: I think it has everything to do with communication because language teaching is a form of communication and language has everyth...
Ann Raimes

NR: Your main teaching interest as it appears in your recent CUP books seems to be writing and grammar. Why do you concentrate on these areas and how do they intersect in your classroom?AR: I see them...
Colin Campbell

Ghost stories always fascinate people; the lure of the supernatural is very powerful, and Colin Campbell exploits this to the full in The Lady in White. Q: Why do you think the supernatural is such a...