Guy Cook – Plenary Speaker @ KOTESOL 2024
Setting the Stage: The EFL Classroom in the First Quarter of the 21st Century
In a special virtual plenary, Guy Cook, pre-eminent scholar of both language play and the place of translation in EFL teaching, participates in a conversation with Conference Chair Bryan Hale. Dr. Cook helps us put our current teaching situations in the context of developments in EFL over the first quarter of the 21st century, discussing the language play "moment" at the turn of the millennium, his criticisms of overly functionalist approaches to language teaching, the place of translation and first language use in the language classroom, developments in artificial intelligence, and his advice on how teachers can make sense of it all.
[ For Dr. Cook's virtual plenary session, click HERE or go to bottom of page. ]
Biosketch
Guy Cook, PhD, EdD, is a researcher at King's College London. His research is in three areas: discourse analysis, English language teaching, and literary stylistics.
In stylistics, early work on literature and advertising expanded into a more general theory of the role of language play in cognition, social relations and language learning.
In Dr. Cook's work on English language teaching, he advocates the use of translation and students' own languages, and is an opponent of exclusively monolingual and utilitarian approaches.
In discourse analysis, Dr. Cook is particularly interested in the language of public debate, especially in matters concerning humans and the natural world. He was principal investigator for a major Leverhulme project on the way people talk about animals. From 2002-2008 he directed four ESRC projects on disputes about food policy (about GM agriculture, organic farming, and school meals).
Select Sites
Guy Cook: Virtual Plenary Session at KOTESOL 2024.
Guy Cook: King's College London.
Guy Cook: Academia.edu.
Guy Cook: ResearchGate.
Books by Guy Cook.
Guy Cook: Wikipedia.
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