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Professor Richard Smith

Activities

  • I am also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of ELT Journal Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window(Oxford University Press), having been editor of the Key Concepts in ELT feature in this journal. For 20 years I was also a member of, and, for 10 years, Chair of the editorial panel of the Warwick-based online journal English Language Teacher Education and Development (ELTED)Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window.
  • Invitations to give keynote papers at conferences, workshops or lectures have taken me to Argentina, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Nepal, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Portugal, Qatar and Turkey.
  • My current responsibilities in the Department of Applied Linguistics include leadership and teaching of modules on History & Spread of English (BA), Innovating in TESOL Methodology (MA) and Sociolinguistics of English as a Global Language (MA), as well as supervision of MA and PhD dissertations / theses.

Publications

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  • (2014) Directory of UK ELT Research, 2011–12 (Co-author with S. Choi, I. Liggins and G. Sky). London: The British Council. Online (Open Access).
  • (2014) 'The history of Teaching English as a Foreign Language, from a British and European perspective’ (with A.P.R. Howatt). Language and History 57/1: 75-95. Online (Open Access)Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window
  • ‘An interview with John Trim (1924—2013) on the history of modern language learning and teaching’, by Richard Smith and Nicola McLelland (2014). Language and History57/1: 10-25. Online (Open Access)
  • ‘Building the history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT)’, (with N. McLelland). Introduction to special issue on ‘History of Modern Language Education in Europe’. Language and History 57/1: 1-9. Online (Open Access)

  • (2014) ‘Teacher-research as continuing professional development: A project with Chilean secondary school teachers' (with T. Connelly and P. Rebolledo). Chapter 5 in Hayes, D. (ed.) Innovations in the Continuing Professional Development of English Language Teachers. London: The British Council, pp. 111–128.
  • [2014]. ‘Transformations in ELT: Agents, contexts and opportunities’. In Shrestha, P.N., Dhakal, K.R., Ojha, L.P., Rana, L.B., and Rawal, H. (eds) NELTA Conference Proceedings 2013. Kathmandu, Nepal: Nepal English Language Teachers’ Association, pp. 12-22.Pre-publication version.
  • (2014) '"Teacher Association research": An innovative form of teacher-research' [with H. Kuchah Kuchah]. Voices (January-February).
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  • (2010). [Co-editor]. Thematic Bibliography on Large Class Teaching / Teaching in Difficult Circumstances (2002 onwards) . [with M. Ajjan, M. Saleem and X. Huang.] Coventry: Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick. Online: bit.ly/telcbiblio1
  • (2010). Directory of UK ELT Research 2005-08. London: The British Council. [jointly compiled with S. Rixon.]
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  • (2007) 'The origins of ELT Journal'. OnlineLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window [on the Oxford University Press ELT Journal website].
  • (2007) 'The birth and early years of the IATEFL Learner Independence SIG'. Independence 40: 4-12.
  • (2007) 'Responding to resistance'. In A. Barfield and S. Brown (eds), Reconstructing Autonomy in Language Education: Inquiry and Innovation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [co-authored with P. Brown and E. Ushioda.]

 

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Dr. Richard Smith
Professor of ELT & Applied Linguistics
R.C.Smith@warwick.ac.uk

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