- Henry Widdowson
Henry Widdowson (also H.G. Widdowson and sometimes Henry G. Widdowson) is an authority in the field of
applied linguistics andlanguage teaching , specificallyEnglish language learning and teaching .Widdowson is perhaps best known for his contribution to
communicative language teaching . However, he has also published on other related subjects such asdiscourse analysis andcritical discourse analysis , the global spread of English, English for Special Purposes andstylistics. "The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning" calls him "probably the most influential philosopher of the late twentieth century for international ESOL" (674).Widdowson is
Emeritus Professor of Education,University of London , and has also been Professor of Applied Linguistics at theUniversity of Essex and Professor of English Linguistics at theUniversity of Vienna . He is the Applied Linguistics adviser toOxford University Press and series adviser of Oxford Bookworms Collection. Widdowson is co-editor of "Language Teaching: A Scheme for Teacher Education". He is the series editor of "Oxford Introductions to Language Study" and the author of "Linguistics" (1996) in the same series. He has also published "Defining Issues in English Language Teaching" (2002), and "Practical Stylistics: An Approach to Poetry" (1992).His most recent book is "Text, Context, Pretext. Critical Issues in Discourse Analysis" (2004), published by
Blackwell's .Articles (brief extract)
* Widdowson, Henry G. (1992) "ELT and EL Teacher." ELT Journal 46/4. 333-339.
* Widdowson, Henry G. (1993) "Proper Words in proper Places." ELT Journal 47/4. 317-329.
*Widdowson Henry G. (1994) "The Ownership of English". TESOL Quarterly 28/2 377-89.
*Widdowson, Henry G. (1997) "EIL, ESL, EFL: global Issues and local Interests". World Englishes 16/1. 146-53.
*Widdowson, Henry G. (1998a) " EIL: squaring the Circles. A Reply." World Englishes 17/3 397-401.
*Widdowson, Henry G. (1998b) "Communication and Community. The Pragmatics of ESP." English for Specific Purposes 17/1 3-14.
* Widdowson, Henry G. (1998c) "The Theory and Practice of Critical Discourse Analysis." Applied Linguistics 19/1 136-151.External links
* Some of Widdowson’s books (including his previously unpublished Ph.D. thesis) can be downloaded for free from the Oxford University Press: [http://www.oup.com/elt/catalogue/guidance_articles/freebooks?cc=global]
* [http://www.njcu.edu/cill/vol5/widdowson.html H.G. Widdowson on TESOL]
* [http://www.oup.com/bios/elt/widdowson_h/?cc=global Biography of H.G. Widdowson @ OUP]
* [http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=0631234527&site=1 Text, Context, Pretext. Critical Issues in Discourse Analysis (2005)]
* [http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/ University of Vienna, Department of English]
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