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Talking shop: transformation and change in ELT
Worked at the University of Edinburgh since 1965, and is now a senior lecturer in the Department of Applied Linguistics. Apart from A History of English Language Teaching, his publications include EFL textbooks and a wide range of contributions to professional journals. He was the President of TESOL Scotland from 1986 to 1994.
First published in 1984, Tony Howatt's A History of English Language Teaching (Oxford University Press) revealed the books, the ideas, and the personalities that had influenced the development of ELT since the fifteenth century. What key trends, organizations, and ideas would appear in a future history of ELT in the 1980s and 1990s? Tony Howatt speculates, in conversation with Barry Tomalin.