Preview of areas of interest

The glitch in changing over from the earlier version of Blogger to the new version seems to have sorted itself out. Thank goodness.

I will try to blog something more substantive on language matters tomorrow.

Perhaps I could say for now—just to foreshadow the sorts of things I will be blogging about—that there are four main applied linguistic research programs that I am interested in plundering for ideas about language pedagogy:

1. SFL (systemic functional linguistics) - of which i have been a fellow traveller for decades
2. Paul Nation et el's AWL (Academic Word List) push - using frequency lists to rationalized vocab learning
3. Doub Biber's corpus based approach to grammar, esp academic grammar
4. And generally the whole new concept of what text and grammar are that is thrown up by taking corpus linguistics seriously a la John Sinclair.

Perhaps there are others I should be also following and exploring.
Any suggestions?