The Word Combination Card: A Writer's Reference

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.