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Webinar on the subject of English and applied linguistics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2022

Henry Widdowson
Affiliation:
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Seyed Yasin Yazdi-Amirkhiz*
Affiliation:
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Extract

In my presentation I argue, not for the first time, the need to rethink orthodox ideas about the relationship between applied linguistics and English language teaching that have been promoted in the past and still prevail. I will do this by taking up issues in questions that I invited colleagues to send me in advance; issues that I have discussed elsewhere, most recently in Widdowson (2019, 2020). Therefore, in many ways, this talk is a reformulation of views I have expressed in the past, but which, I would claim, have a direct relevance to the present.

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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

This paper has been updated. A correction notice has been published detailing the change.

Event organized and moderated by Dr. Seyed Yasin Yazdi-Amirkhiz, Department of English, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran.

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