Prof. N.S.Prabhu, former Deputy Head, Department of
Language and Literature, National University. He is the legendary Indian teacher of English who placed India on the world Communicative Language Teaching map through the highly acclaimed Bangalore Project. Alan Beretta is a research student in applied linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. For the current academic year (1984-5), he is on a scholarship at the Free University, Berlin. Alan Davies is Reader in Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, and co-editor of Applied Linguistics, a quarterly journal published by Oxford University Press.
David Nunan (born 11 October 1949 in Broken Hill, Australia) is
an Australian linguist who has focused on the teaching of English. His ELT textbook series "Go For It!"
Dell Hathaway Hymes (June 7, 1927 in Portland, Oregon
November 13, 2009 in Charlottesville, Virginia) was a linguist, sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist who established disciplinary foundations for the comparative, ethnographic study of language use. His research focused upon the languages of the Pacific Northwest. He was one of the first to call the fourth subfield of anthropology "linguistic anthropology" instead of "anthropological linguistics". The terminological shift draws attention to the field's grounding in anthropology rather than in what, by that time, had already become an autonomous discipline (linguistics). In 1972 Hymes founded the journal Language in Society and served as its editor for 22 years.
Henry Widdowson (also H.G. Widdowson and sometimes Henry
G. Widdowson) (born May 28, 1935) is an authority in the field of applied linguistics and language teaching, specifically English language learning and teaching.
Widdowson is perhaps best known for his contribution
to communicative language teaching. However, he has also published on other related subjects such as discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis, the global spread of English, English for Special Purposes and stylistics. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning calls him "probably the most influential philosopher of the late twentieth century for international ESOL" (674).