KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

HENRY G. WIDDOWSON

Universities of Vienna and London

Henry G. Widdowson began his career teaching English literature at the University of Indonesia. He then worked with teachers of English for several years in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh and subsequently taught at the universities of Edinburgh, London, Essex and Vienna. He was a founding editor of the journal Applied Linguistics and for thirty years acted as applied linguistics adviser to Oxford University Press. He has lectured and written extensively on applied linguistics, discourse analysis and language teaching and his books include Defining Issues in English Language Teaching (2003), Text, Context, Pretext (2004) and Discourse Analysis (2007) – a book in the series Oxford Introductions to Language Study, of which he is the editor. Now in relative retirement, he is Professor Emeritus, University of London, and Honorary Professor at the University of Vienna.

BARBARA SEIDLHOFER

University of Vienna

Barbara Seidlhofer is Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Vienna. Her research and teaching focus on the sociolinguistics of language variation, esp. the description of English as an international language, and its implications for teacher education. She is the founding director of the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE), founding editor of the Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, and past editor of the International Journal of Applied Linguistics. Her books include Understanding English as a Lingua Franca (OUP), Controversies in Applied Linguistics (OUP), Foreign Language Communication and Learning (Mouton De Gruyter, with K. Knapp) and From International to Local English – and Back Again (Lang, with R. Facchinetti and D. Crystal).

MARTIN DEWEY

King's College London

Martin Dewey previously taught English as a second language in Italy, Mexico and the UK. He has trained language teachers on several pre-service and in-service programmes of teacher education, including the CELTA and DELTA schemes, as well as a number of projects on continued professional development in language teaching. His main research interests lie in the relationship between globalization, language diversity and intercultural communication. In particular, he is currently investigating English as a lingua franca (ELF), and compiling a corpus of spoken ELF discourse for the purpose of describing and theorising current developments in the lexis, grammar and pragmatics of English in lingua franca settings. Part of this research entails consideration of the implications of the ongoing internationalization of English for language teaching and language teacher education. He also coordinates a research forum in ELF at King’s College London.