Vivian Cook (linguist)

This article is about the linguist Vivian Cook. For other people called Vivian Cook, see Vivian Cook (disambiguation).

Vivian J. Cook
Born(1940-06-13)13 June 1940
Ealing, England
Died10 December 2021 (aged 81)
Colchester, Essex.
NationalityEnglish
InstitutionsEaling Art College
North East London Polytechnic
Essex University
Newcastle University
Main interests
Second-language acquisition
Websitewww.viviancook.uk

Prof. Vivian James Cook (13 June 1940 – 10 December 2021) was a British linguist who was Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University.

He was known for his work on second-language acquisition and second-language teaching, and for writing textbooks and popular books about linguistics.

He worked on a number of topics such as bilingualism, EFL (English as a foreign language), first-language acquisition, second-language teaching, linguistics, and the English writing system. He published more than 20 books and 100 papers.[1]

He was founder and first President of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA),[2] and co-founder of the Oxford University Press journal Writing Systems Research.[3]

He died in December 2021 at the age of 81 and was survived by his wife Pam.[4]

  1. ^ "Publications by Vivian Cook".
  2. ^ "The Clarion Online - Issue 5". www.davidsingleton.net. Archived from the original on 7 June 2009.
  3. ^ Vivian Cook, Jyotsna Vaid, and Benedetta Bassetti. Writing Systems Research: A new journal for a developing field http://wsr.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol1/issue1/index.dtl#EDITORIAL
  4. ^ Green, Everett (15 December 2021). "Vivian Cook (1940–2021)". Linguist List. Retrieved 17 December 2021.