Bernard Spolsky (1932, New Zealand) was educated at
Wellington College (NZ) and Victoria University (NZ) and received a Ph.D. in Linguistics
from the University of Montreal.
He has been the head of the English Department, Dean of the
Faculty of Humanities and Director of the Language Policy Research Center at
Bar-Ilan University, Israel, where he is currently Professor of English.
Bernard Spolsky has conducted and published research in
language testing, second language learning, computers in the humanities,
applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and language policy. He has been
President of TESOL, held a Guggenheim fellowship and a Mellon fellowship, and
has been Senior Research Fellow at the National Foreign Language Center in
Washington.
He has written several books for Oxford University Press:
Conditions for Second Language Learning, Measured Words and Sociolinguistics.
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