Richard Young

List of John Benjamins publications in which Richard Young is involved.

Talking and Testing: Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency

Edited by Richard Young and Agnes Weiyun He

This book brings together a collection of current research on the assessment of oral proficiency in a second language. Fourteen chapters focus on the use of the language proficiency interview or LPI to assess oral proficiency. The volume addresses the central issue of validity in proficiency… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 14] 1998. x, 395 pp.

Using the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: A workbook with exercises

Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young

This volume has been replaced by a new (online) edition. Please click here for more information.USING THE BBI, introduces students, teachers, translators, and other interested people to the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English. The Workbook explains how the BBI is constructed, demonstrates how… read more

[Not in series, BBI 2 (2nd)] 1991. x, 58 pp. incl. key

Using the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English: A workbook with exercises

Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young

USING THE BBI, introduces students, teachers, translators, and other interested people to the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English. The Workbook explains how the BBI is constructed, demonstrates how collocations differ from free combinations and idioms, and shows how collocations of all types can… read more

[Not in series, BBI 2 (1st)] 1991. x, 58 pp.incl. key

The BBI Dictionary of English Word Combinations: Dictionary and workbook (set)

Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson, Robert F. Ilson and Richard Young

[Not in series, BBI S] 1991. x, 58 pp.; xl, 386 pp. + key

He, Agnes Weiyun and Richard Young 1998 Language Proficiency Interviews: A Discourse Approach Talking and Testing: Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency, Young, Richard and Agnes Weiyun He (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article

Young, Richard and Gene B. Halleck 1998 “Let Them Eat Cake!” or how to Avoid Losing Your Head in Cross-Cultural Conversations Talking and Testing: Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency, Young, Richard and Agnes Weiyun He (eds.), pp. 355–382 | Article

Young, Richard 1996 Form-Function Relations in Articles in English Interlanguage Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation, Bayley, Robert and Dennis R. Preston (eds.), pp. 135–176 | Article

Young, Richard and Robert Bayley 1996 Appendix: VARBRUL Analysis for Second Language Acquisition Research Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation, Bayley, Robert and Dennis R. Preston (eds.), pp. 253–306 | Appendix

Pica, Teresa, Catherine J. Doughty and Richard Young 1986 Making Input Comprehensible: Do Interactional Modifications Help? ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 72, pp. 1–25 | Article

In view of the evidence that comprehensible input is necessary for language acquisition (Krashen 1980, 1982, Long 1981, 1983, 1985), this study compared the listening comprehension of NNSs' of English on directions to an assembly task given by a NS under two input conditions : (1) Syntactically… read more