MY
PUBLICATIONS
I) Research
interests
• British Civilisation (The Crimean War,
Anglo-Turkish Relations, Cyprus, and Malta)
• Web-based authoring programmes (collaborating
with the authors of such programmes)
• Producing web-based language exercises in HTML,
Javascript, Java and Flash
- Teaching
specialities
•
ESP/EFL (General English, Business English, Computer English,
British History)
II)
Publications
-
Textbooks
•
Going into Business (with Marion Elliott) - a business course for
Distance Learning, The British Institute in Paris (London
University), 1984.
• L'Anglais commercial par les Mots-Croisés (Business English
Crosswords - French/English) (Paris: Retz, 1985).
• Je me Perfectionne en Anglais (with Bernard Bazin) (Paris: Retz,
1988).
• L'Anglais des Affaires (with Michael P Grant), audio cassettes
(Le Livre de Poche No 8541 - Les Langues Modernes, Hachette, 1991;
second edition, 1993).
• L'Anglais de la Communication Commerciale (with Dr. Gérard
Selbach), audio cassettes (Le Livre de Poche No 8543 - Les Langues
Modernes, Hachette, 1993).
• Les Verbes à Particules en Anglais (Phrasal Verbs in English)
(with Bernard Bazin) (Le Livre de Poche No 8584 - Les Langues
Modernes, Hachette, 1996).
• Maîtrisez l'Anglais Commercial (with Gérard Selbach) (Le Livre de
Poche - Les Langues Modernes, Hachette, 2001).
• L'Anglais du Management (with Gérard Selbach) (Le Livre de Poche
- Les Langue Modernes, Hachette, 2001).
•
L'Anglais des affaires en pratique (Business English textbook with
exercises) (with Harold J. Benjamin) (Paris: La Maison du
Dictionnaire, 2009).
- Articles
•
Review of Ludmilla Zhivkova, Anglo-Turkish Relations 1933–1939
(London: Secker and Warburg, 1976), Cahiers d'Etudes sur la
Méditerranée Orientale et le Monde Turco-Iranien, CEMOTI, Fondation
des Sciences Politiques, Paris (1985), pp 84-86.
• "Business English Crosswords" in Les Cahiers de l'APLIUT,
Pédagogie et Recherche, Paris, 1986.
• International Transport (bilingual crossword) in Cross
Examinations, Franco-British Chamber of Commerce and Industry,
Paris 1987.
• "Easy Programming in BASIC for Language Teachers" in Les Cahiers
de l'APLIUT, Pédagogie et Recherche, Vol. 4, No. 25, Paris,
1987.
• "Lab Expos" (lecturettes in language laboratories) in Les Cahiers
de l'APLIUT, Pédagogie et Recherche, Vol 5, No. 26, Paris,
1987.
• Bilingual/French-English/crosswords in The Key and The Key Junior
(English language newspaper for learners of English published twice
a month), Paris, 1988–1990.
• "What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG): Word-Processing for
Language Teachers", Les Cahiers de l'APLIUT, Pédagogie et
Recherche, no 32-33 (1989).
• "Dictation Master" (with Sylvie Grasdepot) Les Cahiers de
l'APLIUT, Pedagogie et Recherche, Paris, September-October
1989.
• "Desktop Publishing: A Mystery?" in Les Cahiers de l'APLIUT,
Pédagogie et Recherche, No 38, Paris, 1990.
• "Business English Revisited" (with Michael P. Grant) in Les
Cahiers de l'APLIUT, Pédagogie et Recherche, Nos. 42-43, Paris,
1991.
• "Malta GC - The George Cross Island: From the Language Question
to Bilingualism", Colloquium "Fin d'Empires: Conflits d'Expression
dans les Anciennes Terres Coloniales", Université Paris-Dauphine,
10 March 1993.
• "Malta of gold, Malta of silver, Malta of precious metal", review
of A Ganado and J C Sammut, Malta in British and French Caricature
1798–1815 (Valetta: Said International, 1989), Franco- British
Studies, 16 (Autumn 1993), pp 89-92.
• "What You Scan Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)" in Les Cahiers de
l'APLIUT, Pédagogie et Recherche, No. 49, Paris, 1993.
• 'Full Time Cooks for Half Baked Potatoes' (Creating Web-based
exercises) in Les Cahiers de l'APLIUT, Pédagogie et Recherche,
Volume XIX, No. 2, December 1999, Paris, 1999.
• "The Angloword Puzzle" and "The Angloword Clue Jumble", ANGLOW,
University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (January
2006).
• 'Conference on Maltese economy at University of Paris Dauphine'
(with Patrice Sanguy): article published in the Sunday Times of
Malta (19th November 2006)
http://www.english-studies.org/sitemenu/7malta/Malta-The_George_Cross_Island/page18/page16/page16.html
- Digital
Teaching Materials
•
Placement Test (with Jean René Rouquette) - written in BBC BASIC
for the French Department of The British Institute in Paris (London
University), 1985.
• Presentation of Dictation Master, computerised dictations (with
Sylvie Grasdepot), University of Paris V, 1988.
• L'Anglais des Affaires (with Michael P. Grant), CD-ROM version,
Studio Multimedia (Paris: Hachette, 1994).
• L'Anglais de la Communication Commerciale (with Dr Gérard
Selbach), CD-ROM version, Studio Multimedia (Paris: Hachette,
1995).
• Team leader in charge of the course material for the Medical
English Multimedia Project (with Elanguest School of English, St
Julian's - Malta), Leonardo Multimedia Project, 2003
http://www.englishmed.com
- Websites
•
Michael's ESP-EFL British Civilisation Home Page (1997-2009);
Re-launched in 2010 http://www.english-studies.org
• Resource Centre, University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens
(2000) http://www.u-picardie.fr/crl/campus/index.html
• ESP-Business English, (2001) http://www.cip.dauphine.fr/riccioli/geamsg/geaindex.htm
• Business English Revision Exercises, (2002) http://www.cip.dauphine.fr/riccioli/index.htm
• Leonardo da Vinci - Web and Multimedia Training for Medical
English, Malta (2003) http://www.englishmed.com/
• Extra Help, MD2 "Mathematics of Decision Making" (2005)
http://www.cip.dauphine.fr/riccioli/mathsdecisionmd2/indexmd2.html