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Applied linguistics: A consumer's view

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Swan, Michael·2018·Language Teaching
DOI 10.1017/s0261444818000058
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Like many EFL teachers of my generation, I side-stepped into the profession. While doing post-graduate research at Oxford in the early 1960s, I took a job one summer vacation teaching English in a local language school. Though I had no idea how to do this, I enjoyed the work, and kept on a few hours’ teaching in the next academic year. As time went on, it became clear that I had somewhat more talent for this type of activity than for academic research, and I became a full-time teacher, subsequently opening my own school of English.

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  • Authors of global best-selling titles such as Headway have a greater impact on language learners worldwide than applied linguists, yet are effectively invisible in the academic world.

    “Particularly in the case of global best-selling titles such as Headway , authors undoubtedly have a greater impact on language learners world-wide than applied linguists -yet they are ' effectively invisible in the academic world ' (Swan, 2018, p. 252)”

    From The Global ELT coursebook: A case of Cinderella's slipper? (2022) · cites this paper as Swan, 2018

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Authors
Swan, M.
Corresponding author
Swan, Michael
Venue
Language Teaching
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2018-03-15
Volume
51
Issue
2
Pages
246-261
ISSN
  • 0261-4448 (ISSN-L)
  • 1475-3049
DOI
10.1017/s0261444818000058
OpenAlex
W2792930905
Cited by
18
References
6
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 2
FWCI
12.66
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified)
Locations
Language Teaching (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics and Language Analysis
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Second Language Learning and Teaching
Keywords
applied linguistics, EFL teachers, teacher professional trajectories, self-reflection, English language schools

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