The Corpus-Based Word Combination Card: A Writer's Reference; Academic ESL/ELT

The Word Combination Card is a powerful visual tool that helps English learners write with greater fluency, precision, and academic control. Designed for intermediate to advanced students, this full-color reference card presents the key sentence patterns and grammatical structures used in academic and professional writing. Clear visual sections guide students through constructing cause-and-effect sentences, comparisons and contrasts, examples, reports, topic sentences, and thesis statements.

The card also includes a concise guide to high-frequency collocations and the most common prepositions used in academic English— two areas essential for natural, accurate expression. Compact yet comprehensive, The Word Combination Card can be used alongside any writing or grammar course to support essays, research papers, and presentations. A free downloadable Student Workbook, available at https://www.prolingualearning.com/, provides additional practice for classroom or independent study.

Features Free downloadable Student Workbook for structured practice activities from https://www.prolingualearning.com/ Free downloadable Teachers’ Guide from https://www.prolingualearning.com/ Visual guide to key academic sentence structures (cause/effect, comparison/contrast, exemplification, and reporting) Step-by-step reference for writing topic sentences and thesis statements High-frequency collocation lists for natural word combination Overview of preposition use in academic writing contexts Compact, full-color design ideal for classroom reference or individual study Suitable for intermediate to advanced ESL or EAP learners focused on academic writing Similar Titles from Pro Lingua Learning Writing in English: Step by Step The Grammar You Need: Level 2 Conversation Inspirations Writing Inspirations

Ray Gonzales is Chair of the Department of English Language for Academic Purposes (ELAP), Linguistics, and Communication Studies at Montgomery College in Rockville, MD, USA, where he has taught English as a Second Language for 25 years. Mark Alves, Ph.D., who co-authored The Word Combination Card with Michael C. Berman and Ray Gonzales, is a professor at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, where he has primarily taught college ESL (and Intro to Linguistics and Chinese) since 2001. He has also taught master’ s-level TESOL courses and has written about TESOL writing at the college level. Outside the U.S., he has taught TEFL and linguistics in Vietnam, Taiwan, and Macau. He has also co-authored The Grammar You Need series, published by Pro Lingua. Michael C. Berman is professor of ESL at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland USA, where he has won national awards for both his teaching and materials writing. He is also the Chief Education Officer of Pro Lingua Learning, the publisher of this resource.