vi About the authors
publications are The Structure of Teacher Talk, ELR, 1990, Corpus, Concordance,
Collocation, Oxford University Press, 1991, and the edited collection Looking
Up, Collins Cobuild, 1987.
Amy Tsui is a Lecturer in the Department of Curriculum Studies at Hong
Kong University. Her studies on conversational analysis, pragmatics and
speech act theory have appeared in Semiotica, Language in Society, the
Journal of Pragmatics and various conference proceedings.
Dave Willis is a Lecturer in the Centre for English Language Studies at the
University of Birmingham. His most recent publications are The Lexical
Syllabus, Collins Cobuild, 1990 and, with Jane Willis, The Collins Cobuild
English Course, Levels 1, 2 and 3, 1988–9.
Jane Willis is a Lecturer at the University of Aston in Birmingham. Her
latest publication is First Lessons, Collins Cobuild, 1990, a task-based ELT
course for beginners which is linked to the Collins Cobuild English Course.