This volume is a collection of papers from the Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics at the University of Leeds, September 1994.
Hywel Coleman studied at the universities of Oxford, Leicester and Lancaster and he holds the Final Diploma in Indonesian from the Institute of Linguists, London. He is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the University of Leeds and a Trustee of the Language & Development Conferences. He has lived and worked in Indonesia for more than 25 years. His books include Society and the Language Classroom (Cambridge), Dreams and Realities: Developing Countries and the English Language (British Council, UK) and The English Language in Francophone West Africa (British Council Senegal). He was made an OBE for his services to education in Indonesia in 2000.