WIHEA is delighted to host the Inaugural Lecture for Professor Richard Smith (Applied Linguistics), entitled Teaching in DIfficult Circumstances revisited - again?!

‘Teaching in difficult circumstances’ – a phrase often used to denote the sort of large-class, low-resource (English language) teaching situation which is common in public education settings across the Global South – took on a more general as well as deeper resonance during the pandemic. In this lecture, Professor Smith looks back at his research and teaching at Warwick over the last 23 years, with a particular focus on his work supporting teachers of English in different African, Asian and Latin American contexts. He considers some wider aspects and lessons of this work, as well as possible future directions and implications for the field of ELT.

The lecture can be livestreamed here.