Arthur Joseph

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Honours), supervised by A. Cohen and East.M. Uhlenbeck, in General Linguistics from the University of Utrecht (1983).

Career

Teaching Certificate (Bachelor) in Modern English (1962)

Teaching Certificate (Master of Arts) in English Language and Literature (1968)

Bachelor in English Language and Literature from the University of Leiden (1974) Master of Arts in General Linguistics (Honours) under East.M. Uhlenbeck, University of Leiden (1977)

Postgraduate diplomas in applied linguistics and psycholinguistics (1969–1971)

In honour of Arthur van Essen edited by M. Bax and J.-West. Zwart was published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia in 2001. Contains full bibliography of Arthur van Essen"s writings up to 2001, including his major work East. Kruisinga. A Chapter in the History of Linguistics in the Netherlands published by Martinus Nijhoff of Leiden in 1983.

Teacher of English in state schools in the Netherlands from 1962 to 1971.

Taught refresher courses for the Dutch Ministry of Education in late 1960s. From 1971 to 2001 Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer and then Full Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Pedagogy at the University of Groningen.

Since 2003 Professor Emeritus

Lectured extensively throughout Europe (including Eastern Europe), Africa and America (often on missions for the British Council). Editor of its journal Levende Talen,1971-1975.

Elected Vice-Chair of IATEFL in 1985.

Subsequently committee member. Elected first Chair of NELLE (=Networking English Language Learning in Europe) in 1989. Subsequently Chair of NELLE Advisory Board till 1998.

Head of Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Groningen, 1985-2000.

Head of Teacher Training Unit, University of Groningen, 1998-2001. Chair, Board of Advisors, School for Translators and Interpreters, Utrecht, 1999 to 2008.

Patron of ACTDEC, 2008 to date.

Achievements

• Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau (2002).Reflections on Language and Language Learning.

Membership

Committee Member of the Dutch Modern Language Association Levende Talen (VLLT),1971-1975. Member of IATEFL since 1967. Elected member of the Executive Committee of the European Language Council (ELC), 1995-2003.