11. William Littlewood - Featured Speaker (IC2013)

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Bill Littlewood worked for several years in secondary schools and teacher education in the UK, where he was also a member of several professional committees for modern language teaching and was elected President of the British Association for Language Teaching. He was also involved in Council of Europe projects. Since coming to Hong Kong in 1991 to join an EFL curriculum project, he has worked at tertiary institutions and is currently Honorary Professor at the Hong Kong Baptist University. Prof. Littlewood has served on several government committees in Hong Kong, including the Key Learning Area Committee for English Language Education. His books Communicative Language Teaching and Foreign and Second Language Learning (Cambridge University Press) have been used widely in teacher education and translated into several languages, including Korean. He has presented many plenary papers at international conferences and published widely on applied linguistics and language teaching. Some of the content of the present KOTESOL paper will be reflected in an article in English Teaching in September, 2013.