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Professor Adrian Holliday
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Job title: Professor
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Dept: English and Language Studies
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Tel: 01227 782700
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Campus: Canterbury

Adrian Holliday is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at Canterbury Christ Church University in the Department of Language Studies where he co-ordinates doctoral research in international English language education and intercultural issues. He is also Head of the Graduate School and Research Office| and directs the University research degrees programme. He has published widely in the critical sociology of TESOL, qualitative research methodology and intercultural communication.
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Books
2010. Intercultural communication and ideology. London: Sage.
2010. Intercultural communication: an advanced resource book for students. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. With John Kullman & Martin Hyde.
2007. Doing and writing qualitative research. 2nd edition. London: Sage.
2005. The struggle to teach English as an international language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1994. Appropriate methodology and social context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Recent Journal Articles
2010. Cultural descriptions as political cultural acts: an exploration. Language & Intercultural Communication 10/3: 260-73
2010. Complexity in cultural identity. Language & Intercultural Communication 10/2: 165-77.
2009. The role of culture in English language education: key challenges. Language & Intercultural Communication 9/3: 144-55.
2009. With Pam Aboshiha. The denial of ideology in perceptions of 'nonnative speaker' teachers. TESOL Quarterly 43/4: 669-89.
2008. Standards of English and politics of inclusion. Language Teaching 41/1: 115-26.
2007. Response to 'ELT and "the spirit of the times". ELT journal 61/4: 360-6.
2006 'Native-speakerism.' ELT Journal 60/4: 385-6
2006/2004. 'The value of reconstruction in revealing hidden or counter cultures.' Journal of Applied Linguistics 1/3: 275-294
2005 'How is it possible to write?' Journal of Language, Identity, & Education 4/4: 304-9
Recent chapters in books
2010. Analysing qualitative data. In Phakiti, A. & Paltridge, B. (Eds.), Continuum companion to research methods in applied linguistics. London: Continuum: 98-110.
2009. English as a lingua franca: 'non-native speakers' and cosmopolitan realities. In Sharifian, F. (Ed.), English as an international language: perspectives & pedagogical issues. Bristol: Multilingual matters: 21-33.
2007. The dangers of matrix thinking in international project design. In Coleman, H. (Ed.), Language and development: Africa and beyond, Proceedings of the 7th International Language & Development Conference. Addis Abababa: The British Council: 130-7.
2005. What happens between people: who we are and what we do. In Gieve, S. & Miller, I. (Eds), Understanding the Language Classroom. London: Palgrave Macmillan: 47-63.