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Smith, Richard

Richard Smith (Reader in ELT & Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, UK) has expertise in the fields of language teaching history; learner and teacher autonomy; teacher-research; ELT research capacity-building; and teaching in difficult circumstances. He has published widely and given invited talks, seminars and workshops in many countries, working as an educator and mentor with teachers and researchers from around the world, both face to face and as leader of networks like the Teaching English in Large Classes network (TELCnet), IATEFL Research SIG. and the International Festival of Teacher-research. He is currently the editor of the ‘Key Concepts’ section of ELT Journal, chair of the Editorial Board of English Language Teacher Education and Development Journal, and an academic adviser to teacher-research schemes in both Latin America and South Asia