Vivian Cook Perugia

 

 

Vivian Cook

 

Professor of Applied Linguistics, Newcastle University,emeritus and p.t. teaching/supervision till Dec 2013; visiting professor, University of York
Joint editor: Writing Systems Research.
Chiefly known for L2 learning research, in particular multi-competence, for his book on Universal Grammar, and for books on spelling and words. Founder and first President of EUROSLA. e-mail: Vivian.Cook@ncl.ac.uk

Websites
Writing System Web   Second Language Web  Words and Word test Web  Spelling tests  SLABIB (Second Language Acquisition Bibliography), available on request  On-line papers etc (old and new)  Multi-competence  Bilingual Public Signs  Punctuation Web  The Language of the Street (in progress)  Spelling Humour   Short texts on Words  Novel Spelling  What is L2 Learning? Spelling Shorts

Courses
English Writing System  Second Language Learning & Language Teaching (support materials for the book) Core Issues in SLA

Other
Newcastle Quiz  YouTube videos (itsallinaword)  Tips for typing in Word   Publications List   Words matter (audio lecture)  Text as Art   Wiki entry  TESOL NNEST blog Languages list (Romanian version; Polish version here)   Linguistics Glossary Word Games  Spelling Games Novel Scripts

Recent books
(2009) with Li Wei (eds), Contemporary Applied Linguistics Vol. 1, Continuum
(2009) It's All in a Word,  Profile Youtube extract; Youtube structure words
(2011) with B. Bassetti (eds.), Language and Bilingual Cognition, Psychology Press