Peter Kelly

List of John Benjamins publications for which Peter Kelly plays a role.

Articles

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
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
Li, Xinghua, Xiakun Song, Carole Zimmer, Johan Vanparys and Peter Kelly 1999 Wufun: a new approach to more efficient and effective vocabulary learningITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 125/126, pp. 181–194 | 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
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
Kelly, Peter 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