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| Professor of English for Speakers of Other Languages at London Institute of Education; PhD from University of Edinburgh; lecturer at University of Edinburgh; worked for BC in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh; one of the founder editors of "Applied Linguistics"; Associate Editor of the series "Reading and Thinking in English"; | Widdowson, H. G., 1985 |
| developed "English in Focus" series with Patrick Allen | Widdowson, H. G., 1978 |