Michael Sharwood Smith
Email: msharwood@blueyonder.co.uk
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Mini CV (100 words)Michael Sharwood Smith is currently Emeritus Professor at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and European Second Language Association Distinguished Scholar, former Professor at the English department of the Academy of Social Sciences ,Warsaw and Honorary Professorial Fellow, Edinburgh University. He is also co-founding editor of Second Language Research journal. He currently has around 155 publications in linguistics language acquisition, and human/animal communication. His major research interest is in identifying the role of cognitive representation, processing and development ( especially regarding language and communication. He is currently working with John Truscott on their Modular Cognition Framework (1999 – …) and related publications. Mini CV 2 (approx 250 words) Michael Sharwood Smith is currently Emeritus Professor at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and European Second Language Association Distinguished Scholar, former Professor at the English department of the Academy of Social Sciences ,Warsaw and Honorary Professorial Fellow, Edinburgh and . He currently has around 150 publications in linguistics, language acquisition and human/animal communication. His current major research interest is in identifying the role of cognition representation, processing and development (of any kind but especially in language and communication. He is currently working on the Modular Cognition Framework with John Truscott aimed at facilitating mind/brain mapping He has also been involved in a pioneering international IT project on distance learning, ALLES, and its follow-up project AUTOLEARN., both funded by the European Union. Mike Sharwood Smith is founding editor of Second Language Research, and its precursor the , and its precursor the Interlanguage Studies Bulletin. He was a former (founding) vice-president of the European Second Language Association and Convener of the AILA Scientific Commission on Second Language Acquisition. Given the absence of a non-regional international association of second language acquisition, he also set up the web-based International Commission on Second Language Acquisition to serve as a focal point for the research field. His 13 books include Introduction to language and cognition: map map of the mind (2107), The multilingual mind: a modular processing perspective (2014) with John Truscott , Second Language Learning: Theoretical Foundations (1994) and Aspects of Future Reference in A Pedagogical Grammar of English (1975) plus numerous edited volumes. (I now regard myselffirst and foremost as a cognitive scientist, interested in modelling all forms of learning and knowledge but with a major interest in human language ability across the lifespan). |
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Longer CV (approx. 500 words) Educated at King’s School Canterbury, England, he graduated with M.A.(Hons) in French and German at St Andrews University, Scotland. He taught English as a Foreign Language for one year at the Centre Pédagogique Régional in Montpellier, France and then, for two years years, with intensive pre- and in-service teacher training, for the British Centre, Sweden (secondary school and Folkuniversitet adult education courses), did a postgraduate Diploma in Applied Linguistics at Edinburgh University, Scotland in 1979/70 and taught English as a Foreign Language and Applied Linguistics for 4 years as British Council Senior Lecturer at the Uniwersytet im A. Mickiewicza, in Poznań, Poland, where he set up a four-year writing programme and completed his PhD in English Linguistics on the psychologically motivated design of pedagogical grammars illustrating this with an account of future reference in English. During this early period, his publications mostly covered such applied topics as pedagogical grammar, the teaching of writing and (applied) contrastive linguistic studies. Between 1975 and 1999, he worked in the Netherlands, at the English Department of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Utrecht There he taught courses in English Language, and second language acquisition theory and also at University College, Utrecht (part of Utrecht University providing three-year B.Sc and B.A programmes entirely in English). During this period, he began publishing on topics in the new field of second language acquisition and founded, together with James Pankhurst, two international journals, and its precursor the Interlanguage Studies Bulletin Utrecht and Second Language Research,), the last one fully refereed and ranked in the top category of international linguistic journals, ran a long series of international research symposia (LARS), became Convener of the AILA Scientific Commission on Second Language Acquisition, Vice-President and then Secretary of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA) and completed , currently, 144 publications in TEFL, applied linguistics, theoretical second language acquisition, bilingualism and cognition including 10 books, seven of them as editor. In the absence of a non-regional international association of second language acquisition, he set up and ran the web-based International Commission on Second Language Acquisition (now defunct). From 1st September 1999 to Dec 31st, 2009, he worked at the School of Management and Languages, Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2010, he was appointed Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Moray House School of Education at Edinburgh University and Professor Emeritus at Heriot-Watt University. Between 2010 and 2014 he was also Professor at the English department of the Academy of Social Sciences (SAN) in Warsaw. In 2003, together with Antonella Sorace, he organised the 13th international EUROSLA conference in Edinburgh. In 2017 he was elected a European Second Language Distinguished Scholar. His current major research interest is in identifying the role of language representation, processing and development (including any kind of monolingual or multilingual acquisition and attrition) within human cognition in toto. To this end, he is currently working on a project with John Truscott developing a crossdisciplinary conceptual framework, based on current thinking in cognitive science, for framing explanations of many diverse aspects of human language ability including language. This approach was known as the MOGUL (Modular On-line Growth and Use of Language ) framework which has now been renamed the MOGUL project under the aegis of the Modular Cognition Framework (MCF). At Heriot-Watt University, he directed the Second Language Research Unit and ran a series of annual symposia there as well. He is also interested in the more practical implications of recent second language acquisition theory and led the Heriot-Watt team for ALLES, an EU funded IST project on state-of-the-art distance language learning in which intelligent automatic feedback to the learner is key feature. He then led the Heriot-Watt team in a follow-up project (in the EU Lifelong learning programme) called AUTOLEARN. His hobbies include drawing, painting, flight simulation (for on-line gallery see here and also here – Facebook version) and Latin American dancing, especially salsa. I now regard myself first and foremost as a cognitive scientist, interested in modelling all forms of learning and knowledge but with a major interest in human language ability across the lifespan). Selected publications SELECTED BOOKS
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Predominant research themes from 1980 Themes include: Language transfer / crosslinguistic influence in the language users’ mind. grammatical consciousness (raising) (input enhancement, the effect or non-effect of manipulating the language that the second language learner is exposed to), language attrition (to what extent is this a processing phenomena or an actual loss of ‘knowledge’?), theoretical bases of SLA culminating in the MOGUL Framework (a modular, processing-oriented interpretation of language acquisition and attrition and extending into language cognition in general (now renamed the Modular Cognition Framework) and also research themes on pedagogical and general linguistics issues which have focussed on pedagogical grammar, time reference and the teaching of written English. N.B. I have also given talks to groups interested in the teaching of indigenous languages (Dutch in the Netherlands, Welsh and Gaelic in the UK |
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Summary: Between 1975 and 1999, worked in the Netherlands, at the English Department of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Utrecht teaching courses in English Language, and second language acquisition theory and also at University College, Utrecht (part of Utrecht University providing three-year B.Sc and B.A programmes entirely in English). While in the Netherlands, he co-founded two journals, the second one (Second Language Research) now regularly ranked in the top category of linguistics journals across the world. From 1st September 1999 to Dec 31st, 2009, worked as Professor of Languages at the School of Management and Languages, Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, directing the Second Language Research Unit (SLRU) , running SLRU symposia and, up to the autumn of 2005, led the Heriot-Watt team for ALLES, an European Commission- funded IST project on state of the art distance language learning. He then led the Heriot-Watt team in a follow-up project (in the EU Lifelong learning programme) called AUTOLEARN. Various activities and jobs at Utrecht and Edinburgh have included:
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a) 13 BOOKS – authored and edited (13).
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Sharwood Smith, M. (2011) Creating new grammars: on theoretical approaches to second language acquisition. In Linguistics across Historical and Geographical Boundaries (pp.1457–1464). doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110856132.1457
Van Buren, P. & Sharwood Smith, M. (1988). De rol van het deelverzamelingsprincipe in de tweede-taalverwerving. Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen, 30, 1, 48 – 57. doi:
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1987). Consciousness-raising and the second language learner. In Grammar and Second Language Teaching (reproduced).
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1987). Applied Linguistics and the psychology of instruction: a case for transfusion? In Grammar and Second Language Teaching (reproduced).
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1987). (with W. Rutherford) Consciousness-raising and universal grammar. In Grammar and Second Language Teaching (reproduced).
Rutherford, W & Sharwood Smith, M. (1987). Introduction. Introduction to Grammar and Second Language Teaching. (see also 66-68).
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1987. Notions and functions in a contrastive pedagogical grammar. In Grammar and Second Language Teaching (reproduced).
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1987). Grammar and Second Language Teaching. Imperfective versus Progressive an exercise in contrastive pedagogical linguistics (reproduced). Arabski, J. (Ed).
Sharwood Smith, M.AS. 1987). (with H. Kruse and J. Pankhurst) A multiple word association probe in second language acquisition research. in Studies in Second Language Acquisition.
Sharwood Smith, M. and Kellerman, E. (1986). Crosslinguistic influence in second language: an introduction . In Crosslinguistic Influence in Second Language Acquisition, E. Kellerman and M. Sharwood Smith (eds), 1-9. Oxford: Pergamon.
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1985). Comprehension versus acquisition: two ways of processing linguistic input. Applied Linguistics 7:3 (Thematic Issue on Comprehension) ed. G. Brown.
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1985). Editorial introduction, Applied Linguistics (see 65).
Sharwood Smith, M.A. ( 1985). Problems of knowledge and performance in the creative construction model In H. Bolte (editor) OBST Themenheft Fremdsprachenerwerb.
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1985). Creating new grammar: on theoretical approaches to second language acquisition. In D. Kastovsky and A. Szwedek (eds.) Linguistics Across Historical and Geographical Boundaries. Den Haag: Mouton.
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1985). Preface, Applied Linguistics, 6,3,: 211-213.
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (with E. Bialystok). (1985). Interlanguage is not a state of mind: An evaluation of the construct for second-language acquisition . Applied Linguistics, 6(2), 101-117.
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1984). Review of H. Wode (ed.) Papers on Language Teaching, Language Learning and Language Acquisition. Linguistics, 22: 144-147
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1984). Discussion of The study of lexis in Interlanguage by Paul Meara. In A. Davies, C. Criper and A. P. R. Howatt (eds.) Interlanguage. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 236 – 240
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1984). Review of S. Pit Corder, Error Analysis and Interlanguage. In Applied Linguistics 5:1. 68 – 71.
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1984). Review of H. Dulay M. Burt and S. Krashen, Language Two. In System 12:1. 67-69
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1984). Learnability and second language learning . In J.Fisiak (ed.) Contrastive Linguistics: Prospects and Problems. Den Haag: Mouton. 409.
Sharwood Smith, M. (1983) Cross-linguistic aspects of second language acquisition. Applied Linguistics, 4: 192–199, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/4.3.192.
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1983). Transfer in competence and performance: new dimensions in the investigation of crosslinguistic influence in second language acquisition . In F. Eppert (Ed.) Transfer and Translation in Language Learning and Teaching. Singapore: RELC, 27 – 46
Sharwood Smith, M.A. 1983). On first language loss in the second language acquirer . In S. Gass and L. Selinker. Language Transfer in Language Learning. Rowley: Newbury House, 222 – 231
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1983). On explaining language loss . In S. Felix and H. Wode (Eds.) Language Development At the Crossroads, Tubingen Narr, 49 – 469
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1982). Language transfer; the state of the art . In FINLANCE II, 27 – 38
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1982). Dutch-English Research report: an introduction . In Cornucopia: 3, 116 – 123 44) (ed)
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1982). On the monitoring behaviour of second language learners: a review of J.Hulstijn: Monitor Use by Second Language Learners . In Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 10
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1981. Introducing the Duchess . In W. Kuhlwein und W. Wilss (eds.) Kontrastive Linguistik und Ubersetzungswissenschaft. München Fink, 64 – 71
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1981). More on time reference and the analysis of tense . In Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics XVIII, 67 – 80
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1981). Contrastive Studies in two perspectives . In J. Fisiak (ed.) Contrastive Studies and the Language Teacher. Oxford: Pergamon
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1981). Consciousness-raising and the second language learner . In Applied Linguistics 2:2, 159 -168.
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1981). Notions and functions in a contrastive pedagogical grammar . In A.James and P. Westney (eds.). New Linguistic Impulses in Foreign Language Teaching, Tubingen: Narr
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1980). Developing written proficiency at the advanced level . In J. Nivette (ed.) ABLA Papers: Vreemdetaalonderwijs Aan De Universiteit. Brussels: Vrije Universiteit
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1980). Controverses sur la notion de connaissance explicite dans le domaine de l`acquisition d`une langue étrangère . In Encrages. Paris: University of Paris
.Sharwood Smith, M.A. 1980. Excerpt from Sharwood Smith (1974) (see 1973 no.3 above). In D. Byrne (ed) English Teaching Perspectives. London: Longman.
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1980). Should the child be the teacher of the teacher In IATEFL Newsletter 65, 1-18.
Sharwood Smith, M.A., (1980). Strategies, language transfer and the simulation of learners mental operations . In Language Learning 29:2, 345 – 361.Sharwood Smith, M.A., 1980. On the Monitor Model . In Cornucopia 2:1, 1 – 25
Sharwood Smith, M.A., (1979). Strategies, language transfer and the simulation of the language learner`s mental operations . In Interlanguage Studies Bulletin 4:1, 66 -84
Sharwood Smith, M.A., (1979). Optimalising Interlanguage feedback to the foreign language learner . In Studies in Second Language Acquisition 2:2, 17 – 28.
Sharwood Smith, M.A., (1979). Pedagogical grammar and the communicative approach` . In M. Linnarud and J. Svartvik (eds.) Språk i Kompetens. Lund University Press: Lund.
Marton, W and M.A.Sharwood Smith. (1979). Problem solving and problem-shelving . In Interlanguage Studies Bulletin 4:2, 234 -235.
Kellerman, E., Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1979). Transfer and the bed of Procrustes . In Interlanguage Studies Bulletin 4:2, 236 – 238
Sharwood Smith, M.A., (1978). Applied linguistics and the psychology of instruction . In Studies in Second Language Acquisition 1:2, 91 – 106
Sharwood Smith, M.A., (1978). The Very Irreverent P. G. Wodehouse . In Dutch Quarterly Review 8, 203 – 222
Sharwood Smith, M.A., (1976). Pedagogical grammar in , and its precursor the Interlanguage Studies Bulletin 1:1, 45 – 58.
Sharwood Smith, M.A., (1976). Collected exercises for intermediate and advanced Polish learners of English . In Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics IV, 333-357.
Sharwood Smith, M.A., (1976). New directions in teaching English . In English Teaching Forum XIV:2, 2 – 7.
Sharwood Smith, M.A., , (1976). ditto (Instructor s Manual), 56 – 74
Sharwood Smith, M.A., , (1976). Chapter III in J. Arabski (ed.) Spoken English. Katowice: Uniwersytet Slaski, 93 – 133
Sharwood Smith, M.A., , (1976). Interlanguage and intralanguage paraphrase . In Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics IV, 297 302.
Sharwood Smith, M.A. (1976). On testing written proficiency in the more advanced learner . In Glottodidaktika X, 55 – 63.
Sharwood Smith, M.A. , (1976). Pedagogical grammar and the semantics of time reference in English . In A.U.T., Trier, number 18.
Sharwood Smith, M.A. , (1976). Pedagogical grammar and the semantics of time reference in English . In G. Nickel (ed.) Proceedings of the AILA World Congress, Stuttgart University: Stuttgart.
Sharwood Smith, M.A., (1975). Review of R. Quirk, Languages and Images of Matter. In Dutch Quarterly Review 2
Sharwood Smith, M.A., (1974). Imperfective versus Progressive – an exercise in contrastive pedagogical linguistics . In Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics III, 85-91
Sharwood Smith, M.A., (1974). Experimental formats for exercises in written English . In TESOL Quarterly/1, 43-52
Sharwood Smith, M.A., (1974). Teaching written English: problems and principles, . In English Teaching Forum XII:3, 6 – 12.