Professor Henry Widdowson "Using the language to learn and learning to use the language: what's next in Latin America"

CoordinaCIÓN AcadémicA de Pedagogía en Inglés

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El Programa Inglés Abre Puertas Y LA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA SILVA HENRIQUEZ TIENEN EL AGRADO DE INVITAR A La presentaciÓn deL connotado académico, escritor y lingüista inglés,

Professor Henry Widdowson(1):

"Using the language to learn and learning to use the language: what's next in Latin America"

El evento se desarrollará el jueves 25 de septiembre, de 16.30-18.30 hrs. en EL Aula Magna.

(1)Professor Henry Widdowson is an internationally acclaimed authority in applied linguistics and language teaching. He is perhaps best known for his contribution to communicative language teaching. He has also published on other (though related) subjects such as discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis, the global spread of English, English for Special Purposes and stylistics.

Professor Henry Widdowson previously held chairs at the University of London and the University of Essex, and is now Professor at the University of Vienna.

He is the Applied Linguistics adviser to Oxford University Press and series adviser of Oxford Bookworms Collection. Widdowson is co-editor of Language Teaching: A Scheme for Teacher Education and 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 entitled Text, Context, Pretext. Critical Issues in Discourse Analysis (2004), published by Blackwell's.