Paper at the Centre for Applied Linguistics Research (CALR), Arab Open University – Lebanon conference on ‗Multiple
perceptual frames on English language teaching and research‘, 22 March 2011
Applied Linguistics and ELT: Some Historical Perspectives
Richard Smith, University of Warwick, UK (R.C.Smith@warwick.ac.uk)
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For more information on the Warwick ELT Archive and related publications, see:
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/elt_archive
For a ‗Hall of Fame‘ in the history of ELT, see: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/elt_archive/halloffame
For the British Council‘s Directory of UK ELT Research, see http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/eltresearch
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