The Language Research Team at Cambridge University Press conducts and supports research into how English is actually used, and how it is most effectively learned.
One service that we can offer our clients is the English Clinic. Your teachers are able to email questions about how English is used or learned directly to the Language Research Team and get a personal response.
In addition to answering direct questions, we can help by providing access to questions and answers for other schools and users of the service. Those questions are anonymised to protect the identity of the enquirer. But the value to your teachers will be the opportunity to see questions that are useful to them, but that they did not think to ask.
We also provide a database structure for you to build up your own questions and answers about English, that can be shared across your institution. This helps build up and share expertise across your teaching team.
The English Clinic can help you:
- Provide additional support for your teachers.
- Give them direct access to Cambridge’s extensive knowledge of English language.
- Build the expertise and credibility of your teachers.
You can see some examples of the types of question we answer below:
Checking authentic/natural usage
Checking differences between similar expressions
