H.V. George was Director of the English Language Institute (ELI) at Victoria (now incorporated into the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies) from 1964 to 1981. His publications (most of which are listed below) included a report on a verb frequency count which was one of the earliest substantial studies to use corpus-based frequency data in grammatical description, and his book Common Errors in Language Learning.
During his retirement he continued with his interest in language, language teaching and language learning, and wrote a book called Essays in Informational English Grammar. He did not submit this book for publication. This book clearly builds on his earlier work but takes it much further. With the permission of his family, this book has now been made available in PDF format, so that past students and colleagues can read it and recall this exceptional man, and so that his work is available for others who did not have the privilege of working with him.
George, H. V. (1966) Examinations and class teaching. Comment 29: 30-32.
George, H. V. (1966) ‘If'. ELT Journal 20(2): 113-119, & 20(3): 232-239.
George, H. V. (1965) The substitution table. ELT Journal 20(1): 46-48.
George, H. V. (1965) An article of faith. Te Reo 8: 35-40.
George, H. V. (1963) A Report on a Verb Form Frequency Count. Monographs 1&2. Hyderbad : Central Institute of English.
George, H. V. (1963) Grammar and the teaching of English. Teacher Education 8(1): 3-8.
George, H. V. (1963) Two practical experiments with teachers in training. Bulletin of the Central Institute of English (Hyderbad). 3: ??.
George, H. V. (1963) A verb form frequency count. ELT Journal 18(1): 31-37.
George, H. V. (1962) Teaching ‘simple past’ and ‘past perfect’ with notes on related tenses and forms, followed by a grammar of the ‘past perfect’. Bulletin of the Central Institute of English (Hyderabad). 2: 18-31.
George, H. V. (1962) On teaching and ‘unteaching’. ELT Journal 17(1): 16-20.
George, H. V. (1962) Testing: Another point of view. ELT Journal 16(2): 72-78.
George, H. V. (1961) ‘Low standard’ English: Enemy or friend. Teaching English 6(4): 18-24.
George, H. V. (1961) Standards and statistics. Bulletin of the Central Institute of English (Hyderabad). 1: 21-25.
George, H. V. (1961) Statistics, school-leaving examinations and language teaching. Bulletin of the Central Institute of English (Hyderabad). 1: 54-59.
George, H. V. (1961) Report on a verb form frequency count carried out in the C.I.E. Hyderabad. Bulletin of the Central Institute of English (Hyderabad). 1: 45-53.
George, H. V. (1961) Note on a definition of grammar. Bulletin of the Central Institute of English (Hyderabad). 1: 43-44.
George, H. V. (1961) A note on teaching a and the to beginners whose mother-tongues do not show parallel usage. ELT Journal 15(4): 157-159.
George, H. V. (19??) First things. English Language Teaching (India) ??: 15-21.