Henry G. Widdowson

List of John Benjamins publications in which Henry G. Widdowson is involved.

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Widdowson, Henry G. 2026 Chapter 11. Diversity in Applied Linguistics 60 Years of Applied Linguistics: Toward more engaged research, Miras, Grégory, Isabel Colón de Carvajal, Nathalie Blanc and Shona Whyte (eds.), pp. 181–188 | Chapter

The diversity of research carried out under the name of applied linguistics can be seen as evidence of the vitality of the field, but the diversity seems primarily to relate to the range of disciplinary enquiry that it makes reference to. I argue that this disciplinary focus has the effect of… read more

Widdowson, Henry G. 2020 Linguistics, language teaching objectives and the language learning process Pedagogical Linguistics 1:1, pp. 34–43 | Article

Linguistics has always been taken as the authoritative frame of reference for how language is represented as a pedagogic subject, and as approaches to linguistic description have changed so accordingly have approaches to language teaching. But the purposes that determine what aspects of language… read more

Widdowson, Henry G. 2018 Response 1: Applied linguistics as transdisciplinary practice: What’s in a prefix? Transdisciplinarity in Applied Linguistics, Perrin, Daniel and Claire Kramsch (eds.), pp. 135–142 | Article

Widdowson, Henry G. and Barbara Seidlhofer 2003 The virtue of the vernacular: On intervention in linguistic affairs Social Dialectology: In honour of Peter Trudgill, Britain, David and Jenny Cheshire (eds.), pp. 299–309 | Article

Widdowson, Henry G. 2002 Language teaching: defining the subject Language in Language Teacher Education, Trappes-Lomax, Hugh and Gibson Ferguson (eds.), pp. 67–81 | Article

Widdowson, Henry G. 2001 The monolingual teaching and bilingual learning of English New Perspectives and Issues in Educational Language Policy: In honour of Bernard Dov Spolsky, Cooper, Robert L., Elana Shohamy and Joel Walters (eds.), pp. 7–18 | Article

Seidlhofer, Barbara and Henry G. Widdowson 1999 Coherence in Summary: The Contexts of Appropriate Discourse Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse: How to create it and how to describe it, Bublitz, Wolfram, Uta Lenk and Eija Ventola (eds.), pp. 205–220 | Article

Widdowson, Henry G. 1997 The use of grammar, the grammar of use Functions of Language 4:2, pp. 145–168 | Article

This paper1 is meant to be a contribution to the current debate on the scope and accountability of grammatical description by a critical examination of features of the systemic-functional model. As to scope, I consider to what extent this grammar can actually account for language use in text. I… read more