Arthur van Essen

Professor Arthur van Essen, OON is a linguist, academic and author.

Degrees, honours

Certificate in Modern English (1962)
Certificate in English Language and Literature (1968)
MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Leiden (1973)
MA in Linguistics from the University of Leiden (1977)
PhD in Linguistics from the University of Utrecht (1983)
Several postgraduate diploma's in applied linguistics and psycholinguistics (1969-1971) Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau (2002).
Reflections on Language and Language Learning. In honour of Arthur van Essen edited by M. Bax and. J.-W. Zwart was published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia in 2001.

Main teaching experience

Teacher of English in state schools in Holland from 1962 to 1971. Taught refresher courses for the Dutch Ministry of Education in late 1960s. From 1971 to 2001 Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer and then Full Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Pedagogy at the University of Groningen.
Since 2003 Professor Emeritus
Lectured extensively throughout Europe (including Eastern Europe), Africa and America (often on missions for the British Council).

Offices held

Committee Member of the Dutch Modern Language Association Levende Talen (1971-1975).
Editor of its journal (1971-1975).
Member of IATEFL since 1967.
Elected Vice-Chair of IATEFL in 1985. Subsequently Committee Member
Elected first Chair of NELLE (=Networking English Language Learning in Europe) in 1989. Subsequently Committee Member.
Head of Dept of Applied Linguistics, University of Groningen, 1985-2000.
Head of Teacher Training Unit, University of Groningen, 1998-2001.
Chair, Board of Advisors, School for Translators and Interpreters, Utrecht, 1999 to date.
Patron of ACTDEC, 2008 to date.