Dr. Sandra Savignon is perhaps best known for her research on issues related to second language acquisition, language testing and communicative language teaching curriculum design. She is a past president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and currently serves as convenor of the Scientific Commission for Language Teaching Methodology and Teacher Education for the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA). She travels widely, consulting and giving seminars on communicative language teaching around the world. Dr. Savignon's books include Communicative Competence: Theory and Classroom Practice, winner of the Modern Language Association of America Mildenberger Medal for an outstanding research publication in the field of second/foreign language teaching. The book is now it its second edition (McGraw Hill 1997). More recently, Yale University Press has published a text she edited, Interpreting Communicative Language Teaching: Contexts and Concerns in Teacher Education, 2002, which looks at CLT and teacher education from an international perspective. The contributors include distinguished researchers from the US, Asia, and Europe. The ESL MiniConference Online is honored to share comments from Dr. Savignon's Achievement Profile interview with our readers this month.
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