Jack Richards , NTELT Honorary Scientific Committee

Jack C.Richards

NTELT Honorary Scientific Committee

The University of Sydney, the University of Auckland

Dr. Jack C. Richards is a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops for language teachers.

He has written over 150 articles and books.

Many of his books and articles are classics in the field of second language teaching. Among his well known professional books

• Error Analysis, (1974)
• Reflective Teaching in Second Language Classrooms (1996, with Charles Lockhart)
• Beyond Training (1998)
• The Language Teaching Matrix (1990)
• Curriculum Development in Language Teaching (2001)
• Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching (third edition 2014, with Ted Rodgers)
• Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics (4th edition 2010, with Richard Schmidt)
• Professional Development for Language Teachers (with Tom Farrell)
• Cambridge Guide to Second Language Teacher Education, (2009, edited with Anne Burns)
• Cambridge Guide to Pedagogy and Practice in Language Teaching (edited with Anne Burns)
• Language Learning Beyond the Classroom (Routledge 2014, edited with David Nunan,)
• Key Issues in Language Teaching (Cambridge 2015).

Professor Richards has for many years made himself available as a speaker at many professional conferences without a fee, and supported scholarship programs in different parts of the world.

In December 2011 Dr. Richards was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by Victoria University, Wellington, in recognition of his contributions to English language teaching and the arts.

In 2011 Dr. Richards was made an honorary professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Sydney, Australia.

In 2014 Dr. Richards was made an honorary professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Also in 2014, Dr. Richards received the prestigious Award for Patronage 2014, by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand, acknowledging his support for music and the arts.

In 2016 the International TESOL organization as part of their 50th anniversary honored Jack Richards as one of the 50 TESOL specialists worldwide to have made a significant impact on language teaching in the last 50 years.

source: http://www.professorjackrichards.com