ELF and EFL: what's the difference? Comments on Michael Swan

• H. G. Widdowson

  Henry Widdowson in earlier years taught at the universities of Edinburgh, London, and Essex. He was a founding editor of the journal Applied Linguistics and for thirty years acted as applied linguistics adviser to Oxford University Press. He has lectured and written extensively on applied linguistics, discourse analysis, and language teaching and his publications include Defining Issues in English Language Teaching (2003), Text, Context, Pretext (2004), and Discourse Analysis (2007) – a book in the series Oxford Introductions to Language Study, of which he is editor. Now retired but still (relatively) active, he is Honorary Professor at the University of Vienna.