David M. Bickerton

Background

David Marshall Bickerton was born on January 22, 1944, in Castleford, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. He is a son of Leonard Marshall Bickerton, a librarian and curator, and Mary Elisabeth Bickerton (maiden name Crabtree), a librarian.

Education

David M. Bickerton received a Bachelor of Arts degree, first-class honors, and a Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Leeds in 1967 and 1978 respectively.

Career

David M. Bickerton started his career at the end of the 1960s. In 1969, he joined the staff of the University of Glasgow as a lecturer becoming a senior lecturer by 1986. Seven years later, he occupied the director's post of Language Centre serving in that capacity till 1993 when he was invited to the University of Plymouth as a professor of modern languages. He was named a research professor by 1999.

The following year, he left the institution and was admitted to the scientific council of the Institut national de recherche pédagogique (National Institute for Educational Research).

During the 1990s, David M. Bickerton was fully engaged in the activity of different advisory boards, committees, councils, and projects related to language education, including the French Ministry of National Education, the University Council for Modern Languages, and Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics, and Area Studies among others.

He has taken part in projects focused on the application of new technologies to language acquisition. From 2001 to 2002, Bickerton was a coordinating editor of Web Guide to Good Practice in Teaching and Learning Languages, Linguistics, and Area Studies. He has also been a producer of several television documentaries.

Since 2001, Bickerton has worked as an independent language consultant.

Achievements

• David M. Bickerton is an accomplished educator and author whose contributions to language education was marked by many distinctions, including the first prize of the Festival Audiovisuel des Cultures Minorisées d'Europe (Audiovisual Festival of Minorized Cultures in Europe) for a television documentary La Batalha de la lenga: Documentaire sur l'état actuel de la langue occitane, and Rapido Project award.
  
  David M. Bickerton has been listed as a noteworthy language educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Transmission of Culture in Western Europe, 1750-1850

    (The volume celebrating the Bicentenary of the Foundation ...)

    1999
  • Correspondance: Sciences et techniques

    (The third volume of Marc-Auguste Pictet's book edited by ...)

    2000
  • Language Centres: Integration Through Innovation

    (Edited by David M. Bickerton.)

    1999
  • Marc-Auguste and Charles Pictet, the Bibliothèque britannique and the dissemination of British literature and science on the Continent 1986

Membership

David M. Bickerton has been a member of the European Language Council, the European Confederation of Language Centers for Higher Education, and the Institute of Translators and Interpreters.

Personality

David M. Bickerton’s hobbies include building stone walls, drinking wine, and collecting fourteenth-century wine glasses.

Interests

• travel, building, wine

Connections

David M. Bickerton married Hélène Monfort on August 3, 1968. The family produced four children named Claire, Paul, Christopher, and Emilie.

Father:

Leonard Marshall Bickerton

Mother:

Mary Elisabeth Bickerton

Wife:

Hélène Monfort

Daughter:

Claire Bickerton

Son:

Paul Bickerton

Son:

Christopher Bickerton

Daughter:

Emilie Beckerton