Mike Swan

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Web Name: Mike Swan

WebSite: http://www.mikeswan.co.uk

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English language teaching and applied linguisticsAfter studying Modern Languages at Oxford University, I worked in English language teaching for around twenty years. I co-founded and directed the Swan School of English in Oxford, and later worked in adult education in Paris. During that period I began writing and publishing English language teaching and reference materials, and this became my main occupation. For some years, I was also the Series Editor for Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers.My more academic interests include descriptive and theoretical grammar, mother-tongue influence in second-language acquisition, and the relationship between applied linguistic theory and language-teaching practice. I have published a number of articles on these topics, and have given lectures and workshops in many countries.Despite all this, I feel bound to confess that, as I drifted into English language teaching and applied linguistics with no professional training in these areas, I have no qualifications whatever for the work that I do. If I applied to myself for a job as a research assistant, I would have to turn myself down.↠ Books↠ Articles↠ Some things I believe PoetryI write and publish poetry, perhaps as a desperate attempt to prove that even grammarians have souls.OutsideGood, sometimesto go outsideand walk round yourselflooking in the windows.There are lights blazingin rooms you have never seen;strangers dancing,reading,quarrelling;things going onyou can scarcely credit.Onlydon’t stay out too long.They might change the locks.↠ See more of my poetry

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