William J. Crawford
List of John Benjamins publications in which William J. Crawford is involved.
2025 Describing and interpreting task performance using a register functional approach TASK 5:1, pp. 115–143 | Article
This paper illustrates how the description of tasks and task performances can benefit from a methodological and interpretative framework called the Register Functional (RF) approach. The paper first discusses research goals, conceptions of context and linguistic interpretation of task… read more
2021 How can register analysis inform task-based language teaching? Register in L1 and L2 Language Development, Gray, Bethany and Jesse Egbert (eds.), pp. 180–206 | Article
For over 30 years, corpus research on register variation has expanded our understanding of language use by illustrating how linguistic features co-occur and vary in different situations of use (Biber & Conrad 2019). Over the same period, Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) has provided a… read more
2016 7. Thai EFL learners’ interaction during collaborative writing tasks and its relationship to text quality Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning: Pedagogical potential and research agenda, Sato, Masatoshi and Susan Ballinger (eds.), pp. 185–208 | Article
Second language (L2) writing research has shown that L2 learners routinely scaffold each other when working together to co-construct written texts. The analysis of peer interaction has focused largely on the occurrence of language-related episodes (LREs), with fewer studies documenting how learners… read more
2008 12. Place and time adverbials in native and non-native English student writing Corpora and Discourse: The challenges of different settings, Ädel, Annelie and Randi Reppen (eds.), pp. 267–287 | Article
This chapter builds on previous research that has established the spoken nature of learner writing by providing quantitative and qualitative accounts of time and place adverbs of student writing in comparison to published academic English writing and native English conversation. The chapter shows… read more
1985 Charles C. Fries on ‘Meaning’ in structural linguistics and language pedagogy Toward an Understanding of Language: Charles Carpenter Fries in Perspective, Fries, Peter H. and Nancy M. Fries (eds.), pp. 143–160 | Article