Peter Kelly
List of John Benjamins publications in which Peter Kelly is involved.
2008 Supplementing an uncertain investment? Mainland Chinese students practising English together in Hong Kong Chinese Students: Perspectives on their social, cognitive, and linguistic investment in English medium interaction, Arkoudis, Sophie and Chris Davison (eds.), pp. 9–29 | Article
This paper reports on a study into the motives underlying the formation of a weekly English discussion group organized by mainland Chinese research students in Hong Kong as a strategic effort to improve their English. Adopting a sociocultural approach, we compared our interpretations of… read more
2002 Does Cognitive Linguistics have anything to offer English language learners in their efforts to master phrasal verbs? ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 137/138, pp. 205–231 | Article
Phrasal verbs are widely acknowledged as being a notoriously difficult area of language for learners of English. The tendency in the past has been to regard them as arbitrary items of language that must simply be learned by heart. As an alternative to the rote memorisation of random lists of… read more
1996 A comparison of the perceptions and practices of Chinese and French-speaking Belgian university students in the learning of English: the prelude to an improved programme of lexical expansion ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 113/114, pp. 275–303 | Article
This paper describes the first stage of a pedagogically oriented programme of research, the ultimate objective being to facilitate the learning of lexis within the context of the language learning programmes already developed within our respective universities, namely, the Facultés Universitaires… read more
1986 Solving the Vocabulary Retention Problem ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 74, pp. 1–16 | Article
The main problem in learning foreign language vocabulary is retention. There exists a considerable amount of evidence pointing to the superiority of mnemonic techniques over rote repetition in the learning of verbal material. An investigation was carried out comparing the learning of FL vocabulary… read more
1986 How do ESL writers compose? Literacy, pp. 94–119 | Article
This paper focusses upon an experiment in which 9 adult non-native speakers of English were required to ‘think aloud’ as they undertook a writing task of an expository kind. The experiment aimed to accumulate data about the sub-processes of writing (planning, rehearsing, revising, re-reading,… read more