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about professor jack c. richards
Born in New Zealand, Dr. Richards obtained a Master of Arts degree with first class honors in English from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1966. He obtained his Ph.D in Applied Linguistics from Laval University (a French-Language University) in Quebec City, Canada in 1972.
He has worked in many parts of the world, including New Zealand, Canada, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the United States. After completing his PhD, he taught in Indonesia and was then appointed specialist in applied linguistics at the Regional Language Centre Singapore, under the auspices of the New Zealand Government. Later he was Senior Lecturer in English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, before being appointed Full professor in the Department of English as a Second Language at the University of Hawaii in 1981. In 1989 year he returned to Hong Kong to set up a new department of English at the City University of Hong Kong, where he was head of the department of English and also chair professor. In 1996 he returned to his home country for two years to set up an MA in Language Teaching at the University of Auckland. Since 1999 he has been based in Singapore again at the Regional Language Centre, where he is adjunct professor. In Singapore Dr. Richards teaches language classes and teaches in the MA in Applied Linguistics as well as the RELC Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Linguistics. Professor Richards is also an adjunct professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, and gives guest lectures at Macquarie when he is in Australia.
Dr. Richards is a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops for language teachers, and visits some 12 countries every year. He is also a long term consultant to the Ministry of Education, Sultanate of Oman.
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