Vivian Cook

Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2004-

Dept of Education, Communication and Language Studies
King George VI Building
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7DU
England

Biodata

Vivian Cook worked as a lecturer in EFL in Ealing Technical College in London, England, then as Director of the Language Service at North East London Polytechnic and as Reader at Essex University. Since 2004 he has been Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in England. He is chiefly known for his work on L2 learning, for his book on Chomsky and for a popular book on spelling. Current interests are the English writing system and the multi-competence view of L2 acquisition, particularly bilingual cognition. Founder and first President of the European Second Language Association.

Short CV

B.A. English Language and Literature (2nd class honours) (1963), New College Oxford

Diploma in English Linguistic Studies (1970), University College London 1963-1964

Ph.D. (1986), University of Essex

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction, Blackwell, 1988. Translated into Japanese (1990), Italian (1990) and Korean (1992). Second edition with joint author M. Newson (1996). Translated into Italian (1996); Chinese edition (2000). Third edition in preparation.

Second Language Learning and Language Teaching, Edward Arnold, 1991. Translated into Japanese 1993. Second edition 1996. Chinese edition 2000. Third edition 2001.

Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition, Macmillan, 1993. Chinese edition 2000

Portraits of the L2 User, (editor and contributor) Clevedon, Multilingual Matters, 2002

Effects of the Second Language on the First, (editor and contributor) Clevedon, Multilingual Matters, 2003

The English Writing System, Arnold, 2004

Second Language Writing Systems (editor and contributor, with Benedetta Bassetti), Multilingual Matters (to appear, 2005)

ARTICLES

'The analogy between first and second language learning', IRAL, VII/3, 207-216, 1969. Reprinted in R. Lugton (ed.), Towards a Cognitive Approach to Second Language Acquisition, CCD, 1971

'Is explanatory adequacy adequate?', Linguistics, 133, 1974

'Some uses for second language learning research', Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 379, 251-258, 1981

'What should language teaching be about?', English Language Teaching Journal, 37, 3, 1983

'Chomsky's Universal Grammar and second language learning', Applied Linguistics, 6, 1-8, 1985

'Language learners' extrapolation of word order in phrases of Micro-Artificial Languages,' Language Learning, 38, 4, 497-529, 1988

'Timed comprehension of binding in advanced learners of English', Language Learning, 40, 4, 557-599, 1990

'The poverty-of-the-stimulus argument and multi-competence', Second Language Research, 7, 2, 103-117, 1991

'Evidence for multi-competence', Language Learning, 42, 4, 557-591, 1992

'The metaphor of access to Universal Grammar', in N. Ellis (ed.), Implicit Learning and Language, Academic Press, 1994, 477-502

‘Timed grammaticality judgements of the head parameter in L2 learning’, in G. Bartelt (ed.), The Dynamics of Language Processes, Gunter Narr, 1994, 15-31

‘The consequences of bilingualism for cognitive processing’, in A.M. de Groot & J.F. Kroll (eds.), Tutorials in Bilingualism: Psycholinguistic Perspectives, Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997

‘L2 users and English spelling’, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 18, 6, 474-488, 1997

'Relating SLA research to language teaching materials', Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1, 1-2, 9-27, 1998

‘Going beyond the native speaker in language teaching’, TESOL Quarterly, 33, 2, 185-209, 1999

‘Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition: One Person with Two Languages’. In M. Aronoff & J. Rees-Miller (eds.), The Blackwell Handbook of Linguistics, 488-511, 2000

'Using the first language in the classroom', Canadian Modern Language Review, 57, 3, 402-423, 2001

'Knowledge of writing', International Review of Applied Linguistics, 39, 1-18, 2001

'Effects of the second language on the syntactic processing of the first language', with Iarossi, E., Stellakis, N. & Tokumaru, Y. In V.J. Cook (ed.), Effects of the Second Language on the First. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters (2003). 214-233

'Materials for adult beginners from an L2 user perspective'. In B. Tomlinson (ed.), Developing Materials for Language Teaching. London: Continuum (2003), 275-290

'The poverty-of-the-stimulus argument and structure-dependency in L2 users of English', International Review of Applied Linguistics, 41, 201-221, 2003

‘The spelling of the regular past tense in English: implications for lexical spelling and dual process models’. In Bergh, G., Herriman, J. and Mobärg, M. (eds.), An International Master of Syntax and Semantics: Papers Presented to Aimo Seppänen on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday, Acta Unversitatis Gothoburgensis, Göteborg, Sweden (2004), 59-68

‘The goals of ELT: reproducing native speakers or promoting multi-competence among second language users?’, in C. Davison and J. Cummins (eds), Kluwer Handbook on English Language Teaching Volume 2, (to appear)

(with B. Bassetti, C. Kasai, M. Sasaki and J. Takahashi), ‘Do bilinguals have different concepts? The case of shape and material in Japanese L2 users of English’, International Journal of Bilingualism (to appear)

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Advisory/edtorial boards: Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1990-94; Second Language Research, 1985-95; Syntax, Journal of Applied Linguistics (Greece), Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics

reviewed papers submitted inter alia to IRAL, CMLR, Quarterly J. of Exp. Psych., IJAL, Language Learning, MLJ, SLR, SSLA, Applied Linguistics, TESOL Quarterly, J. Child Lang.. CJAL

member of advisory panel on Longman New Student Dictionary early 1990s

founding committee member of MATSDA (teaching materials association) 1993-94

President of steering committee of EUROSLA (European Second Language Association) 1989; first President of Association, 1991; Secretary 1993-97