The Expert of Discourse Analysis and language teaching

Michael McCarthy

Michael McCarthy is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK. ; Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University; and Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Limerick, Ireland Well known as an expert on the teaching and learning of grammar and vocabulary, he is a co-author of Cambridge Grammar of English and the elementary, upper-intermediate and advanced levels of English Vocabulary in Use. He is also the author of many titles of interest to teachers, including From Corpus to Classroom and Spoken Language and Applied Linguistics.

. He is author of several books on vocabulary, English grammar, discourse and discourse analysis, and spoken English, as well as the author or co-author of more than 70 academic papers. He is Academic Consultant to the Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs and the Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms and Phrases. From 1994 to 1998 he was co-editor of Applied Linguistics. He is co-director (with Ronald Carter) of the 5-million word CANCODE spoken English corpus project, and the one-million word CANBEC spoken Business English corpus project, both sponsored by Cambridge University Press, at the University of Nottingham. He has lectured on language and language teaching in 38 countries and has been actively involved in language teaching for 40 years. Dr. McCarthy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.