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Various written material on language teaching and linguistics.

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• Cribb, V.M. (2002). Respecting process and product in research papers. Journal of Inquiry and Research No. 75. Osaka, Japan: Kansai Gaidai University, 185-199.

• Cribb, V.M. (2002). Machine Translation: A silicon-based solution to the Tower of Babel. PAC3 at JALT 2001: Conference proceedings. Tokyo, Japan: JALT, 716-722. (paper - first published in JALT)

• Cribb, V.M. (2001). The notion of fluency: Investigating the oral fluency of non-native speakers of English. Journal of Inquiry and Research No. 74. Osaka, Japan: Kansai Gaidai University, 153-167.

• Cribb, V.M. (2001). Machine Translation. The Language Teacher, Nov. 2001. (paper - first published in JALT)

• Cribb, V.M. (2001). An analysis of discourse miscues in the oral production of non-native speakers of English. JALT Journal, 23(1), 111-129. (paper - first published in JALT)

• Cribb, V.M. (2001). The Passport: An approach to learning which encourages students to focus on form autonomously. The Proceedings of the CUE Conference: Developing Autonomy. (paper - first published in JALT)

• Cribb, V.M. (2001). Attending to ESL concerns in content-based instruction. On JALT2000: The Proceedings of the JALT 26th Annual International Conference on Language teaching and Learning and Education Materials Expo. R. Long, G. van Troyer, K. Lane, M. Swanson, (Eds.). Tokyo: JALT. (pp.115-120). (Pre-conference paper) (Slides)

• Cribb, V.M. (2000). Machine Translation: The alternative for the 21st century. TESOL Quarterly, 34, 560-569

• Cribb, V.M. (2000). Learner intervention in the language classroom. The Language Teacher, 24(10), 9-12. (paper - first published in JALT)

• Cribb, V.M. (1998). An investigation into discourse miscues and errors in the oral production of Korean students of English. M.A. Thesis, Dept. of Linguistics & Phonetics, University of Leeds.

• Cribb, V.M. (1997). Eclecticism: the next paradigm shift?, Hyundai Human Resources Journal, Spring Vol., 114-117.

• Cribb, V.M. (1996). A day in the life of an English teacher. Hyundai Human Resources Journal, Autumn Vol., 129-133.

• Cribb, V.M. (1995). A model for second language acquisition. Hyundai Human Resources Journal.

Part I: Summer Vol., p79-84
Part II: Autumn Vol., p132-135
Part III: Winter Vol., p140-145

Presentations

• Cribb, V.M. (2001). Machine Translation and the Future of English as a Global Language. Paper presented at the JALT2001 Conference in Kokura, Japan. (Slides)

• Cribb, V.M. (2001). The Passport: An approach to learning which encourages students to focus on form autonomously. Paper presented at the CUE conference: Developing Autonomy. (Slides)

• Cribb, V.M. (2000). Attending to ESL Concerns in Content-Based Instruction. Paper presented at the JALT2000 conference in Shizuoka, Japan. (Slides)

Essays

• The Role of Explicit Instruction in the Second Language Classroom
  
• Task-Based Teaching and Information Processing Accounts of Second Language Learning
  
• Animal Language: Re-defining the question for the linguist
  
• Language, Change and Chaos /Complexity Science
  
• The Origins of Language
  
• But the king has no clothes on! (semantics /pragmatics)
  

Most documents are in Word 95 or 98 format in zip files. .