Michael McCarthy

Michael McCarthy is an Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham and holds adjunct positions at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Limerick.

He is renowned for his expertise in vocabulary teaching and learning, having authored numerous publications in this field.

McCarthy has contributed to several Cambridge University Press projects, including the Vocabulary in Use series, dictionaries of phrasal verbs and idioms, and corpus-informed works like Touchstone and Cambridge Grammar of English.

His extensive experience and research in applied linguistics have made him a respected figure in language education.