Professor Jack C. Richards, an internationally-renowned applied linguist and educator, will be teaching at the Ust Graduate School this Special Term on a two-week intensive course on Curriculum Design for MA English Language Studies students. As a specialist in second and foreign language teaching, he has authored more than 150 books, articles, and monographs published by Routledge, Cambridge, Pearson, and Longman, among others and translated into several languages.
Professor Richards obtained his Master of Arts degree with first class honours in English from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand and his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Laval University (a French-Language University) in Quebec City, Canada.
In 1999, Professor Richards retired from full-time university teaching and administration and since then has taught for part of each year at the Regional Language Centre (RELC), in Singapore, while making his primary residence in Sydney, Australia. At RELC, Dr. Richards teaches in the MA in Applied Linguistics program, as well as the RELC Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Linguistics.
TESOL International, on its 50th anniversary this year, honored Professor Richards as one of the 50 TESOL specialists worldwide to have made a significant impact on language teaching in the last 50 years.
After his stint at the UST Graduate School, Professor Richards will give a workshop to the UST English faculty on June 30 – July 1, 2016. He is teaching at the UST Graduate School without a fee.
