Principle and Practice in Applied Linguistics: Studies in Honour of H. G. Widdowson (Oxford Applied Linguistics) - Softcover

Cook, Guy; Seidlhofer, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0194421481 ISBN 13: 9780194421485

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1995

Synopsis

This book provides an overview of the diverse issues in applied linguistics today. Leading specialists consider the relation of their own areas of inquiry both to professional practice and to the discipline as a whole.

About this title

About the Author:

Professor Henry Widdowson is Emeritus Professor of Education, University of London, and has also been Professor of Applied Linguistics at Essex University and Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Vienna. Guy Cook is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of
Reading. He has worked as an EFL teacher in Egypt, Italy, the UK, and Russia, as a lecturer at the University of Leeds, and as head of TESOL at the London University Institute of Education. He has been an invited speaker at universities and major conferences in many countries, and has published
widely on discourse analysis, the theory and practice of language teaching, literature teaching, translation, and language play. Barbara Seidlhofer has taught German in the UK and currently works as a researcher and Professor in Linguistics and Methodology in the English Department at Vienna
University.

Review:

'... essential reading at an affordable price: the editors and OUP have done us proud.' - IATEFL Newsletter

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0194421481
• ISBN 13: 9780194421485
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 450