Career

He has taught in Indonesia, Thailand, the United States, Finland, and Japan. He is Emeritus Professor in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Together with Batia Laufer, James Coady, Norbert Schmitt, Paul Meara, and Rob Waring, his position emphasises having a balance of learning opportunities including the "four strands" approach to language courses and classes (Taylor 2004, Nation & Newton 2008), with study time devote about 25% to each of:

input from reading and listening,

output through writing and speaking,

study of formal language instruction id est (that is) grammar and vocabulary, and

practice for fluency in all four of the basic skills.