Research Interests

• Applied linguistics.
• English language teaching.
• Discourse analysis.
• Literary stylistics.

Selected Publications

• Stylistics and the Teaching of Literature. London: Longman. 1975.
• Teaching Language as Communication. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1978.
• Explorations in Applied Linguistics, Vols 1 & 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1979 & 1984.
• Aspects of Language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1990.
• Practical Stylistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1992.
• Defining Issues in English Language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003.
• Text, Context, Pretext. Oxford:Blackwell. 2004.
• Discourse Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2007.

CV

• 1969 - 77. Lecturer, Dept of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh
• 1977 - 1998. Professor of  English, University of London Institute of Education.
• Since 1998. Professor Emeritus
• 1993 - 1998. Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Essex.
• 1998 - 2001. Professor of English Linguistics, University of Vienna,
• Since 2001. Honorary Professor.