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ELT Journal 1992 46(2):172-179; doi:10.1093/elt/46.2.172
© 1992 by Oxford University Press
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Development, education, and English language teaching

Gerry Abbott

Gerry Abbott lectures in The Teaching of English Overseas at the University of Manchester. He has taught for substantial periods in Thailand, Jordan, Uganda, PDR Yemen, Sarawak, and Burma, with shorter assignments in Spain, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Algeria, KwaZulu, Malaysia, Vietnam, Pakistan, and Cameroon. He co-edited and contributed to The Teaching of English as an International Language (Collins, 1981); and an account of his stay in Burma, Back to Mandalay (Impact Books, 1990) was recently published.

In the last thirty years underdevelopment has been attributed to various causes, including shortcomings in education, but there has been no exploration of the possible correlation between underdevelopment and the absence of mother-tongue education. The author believes that there is a connection and that it might be fruitful if those pursuing studies in development, language planning, and language teaching were to work more closely together.


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