Dave Willis

The plenary speakers for this year's convention are Jack Richards, Simon Greenall and Dave Willis.
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Dave WillisDave Willis has worked in the field of English language teaching for almost forty years.He worked as a teacher and teacher trainer in Ghana, Cyprus, Iran and Singapore as well as the UK.He recently retired from his job as a Senior Lecturer working on MA TEFL/TESL programs at Birmingham University, but continues to be active writing and running workshops and consultancies.He has written widely on discourse analysis, task-based learning and pedagogic language description.His latest book: Rules, Patterns and Words: Grammar and Lexis in English Language Teaching is to be published later this year.

Speaker: Dave Willis
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Description: Dave Willis will show how grammar and lexis, contrary to traditional notions, are indeed related.He will look at the implications of this interrelationship for language teaching.A small reception will be held after the presentation to toast the speaker and the 4 Corners Tour. About the speaker: Willis has worked in ELT for almost forty years.He worked as a teacher and teacher trainer in Ghana, Cyprus, Iran and Singapore as well as the UK.He recently retired from his job as a Senior Lecturer working on MA TEFL/TESL programmes at Birmingham University, but continues to be active in ELT writing and running consultancies.He has written extensively on discourse analysis, task-based learning and pedagogic language description.His latest book Rules, Patterns and Words: Grammar and Lexis in English Language Teaching will be published by Cambridge University Press in December of 2003.

Speaker: Dave Willis
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Description: Dave Willis will show how grammar and lexis, contrary to traditional notions, are indeed related.He will look at the implications of this interrelationship for language teaching.Willis has worked in ELT for almost forty years.He worked as a teacher and teacher trainer in Ghana, Cyprus, Iran and Singapore as well as the UK.He recently retired from his job as a Senior Lecturer working on MA TEFL/TESL programmes at Birmingham University, but continues to be active in ELT writing and running consultancies.He has written extensively on discourse analysis, task-based learning and pedagogic language description.His latest book Rules, Patterns and Words: Grammar and Lexis in English Language Teaching will be published by Cambridge University Press in December of 2003.

Dave Willis
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by Dave Willis
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Dave Willis has worked for over forty years as a TEFLer around the world.He recently retired from his post as senior lecturer at Birmingham University, where he taught mainly on MA TEFL/TESOL distance programmes.His areas of interest are task-based methodology and pedagogic language description, on which he has published widely.

In 1924 James married Peggy, daughter of the Raith trainer Dave Willis, at a ceremony in Edinburgh.

Plenary speaker, Dave Willis, gave a presentation entitled 'Learning Processes and Strategies.' Dave has worked in English Language Teaching for almost forty years.He worked as a teacher and teacher trainer in Ghana, Cyprus, Iran and Singapore as well as the UK.He has written widely on discourse analysis, task-based learning and pedagogic language description.His latest book Rules, Patterns and Words: Grammar and Lexis in English Language Teaching was published by CUP in 2004.

Dave Willis Invited Speaker

Dave Willis has worked as a teacher and teacher trainer in West Africa, Cyprus, Iran, Singapore and the UK.His last post was Senior Lecturer at Birmingham University, working particularly on MA TEFL/TESOL distance programmes.
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Her publications include 'Teaching English through English' and 'A Framework for Task-based Learning' (Longman); 'Challenge and Change in Language Teaching' (Heinemann) jointly edited with her husband, Dave, and more recently, jointly with Mary Slattery, 'English for Primary Teachers' (OUP).

Dave Willis
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Dave Willis
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Dave Willis has worked for over forty years as a TEFLer around the world.He recently retired from his post as senior lecturer at Birmingham University, where he taught mainly on MA TEFL/TESOL distance programmes.His areas of interest are task-based methodology and pedagogic language description, on which he has published widely.

Dave Willis
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Dave Willis has worked in ELT for almost forty years.He has worked as a teacher and teacher trainer in Ghana, Cyprus, Iran and Singapore as well as the UK.He recently retired from his job as a Senior Lecturer working on MA TEFL/TESL programmes at Birmingham University.He continues to write and run workshops and consultancies.He has written widely on discourse analysis, task-based learning and pedagogic language description.His latest book: Rules, Patterns and Words: Grammar and Lexis in English Language Teaching is to be published by Cambridge University Press later this year.