If we could just suggest: a response to Graham Burton
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Christian Jones [1] ; Daniel Waller [2]
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[1] University of Liverpool
University of Liverpool
Reino Unido
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[2] University of Central Lancashire
University of Central Lancashire
Preston District, Reino Unido
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- Localización: ELT journal: An international journal for teachers of English to speakers of other languages, ISSN 0951-0893, Vol. 76, Nº 3, 2022, págs. 348-352
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Readers Respond is a forum for individuals to contribute their own reactions, perspectives, or experiences in relation to a specific article or articles published in a recent issue of ELT Journal. These views are not necessarily those of the Editor, the Editorial Panel, or the Publisher. This article responds to Burton, G. 2021 Rehabilitating the ELT conditional system.
Graham Burton’s recent publication on conditionals (Burton 2021) was a thought-provoking and welcome review of this area. His article drew upon and revisited an article we published ten years ago (Jones and Waller 2011), where we suggested that the descriptions of conditionals in many English language teaching materials did not reflect the reality of actual use, as evidenced in a corpus. In this short response, we would like to outline what we see as some implications from Burton’s research, some points of disagreement, and some suggestions regarding where we think such analysis needs to go next.
