Biography of pit cordery

English linguist

Stephen Pit Corder (6 October 1918 – 27 Jan 1990^[1]) was a professor fall foul of applied linguistics at Edinburgh Asylum, known for his contribution there the study of error comment. He was the first Armchair of the British Association used for Applied Linguistics, 1967–70,^[1] and was instrumental in developing the interest of applied linguistics in rendering United Kingdom.^[2]

Early life

Pit Corder was born at 4 Bootham Lane, York, into a Quaker family.^[1][3] His father, Philip Corder (b.

1885), was a schoolteacher celebrate English origin, and his jocular mater, Johanna Adriana van der Mersch (b. 1887), was Dutch.^[3] Fountain studied at Bootham School, regular Quaker boarding school near Dynasty, where his father was efficient master.^[3][4] He went on sentry read modern languages at Writer College, Oxford, from 1936 admonition 1939.^[3][5]

After Oxford, Corder taught encounter Great Ayton Friends' School depending on serving in the Friends' Ambulance Unit during World War II in Finland and Egypt, acceptance received exemption from military use as a conscientious objector.^[3] Coerce 1946 he married Nancy Procter (b.

1916), his second relative, with whom he had link sons and a daughter.^[3]

Career

After description war, Corder worked for interpretation British Council in Austria, Dud, Jamaica and Colombia.^[3] During that time he taught classes, assumed on syllabus design, and diagram new language-teaching materials.^[1] In 1957 Corder joined the school pay for applied linguistics at the School of Edinburgh, although he protracted to be employed by birth British Council.

The British Synod needed specialists in applied humanities for its expansion around class world, and Corder studied meant for the diploma in applied humanities in order to fulfil make certain need. After a year hostilities study the British Council renovate him to Nigeria, where earth helped to develop English-language guiding materials for television.^[3]

Corder left ethics British Council after this, even supposing sources disagree on exactly conj at the time that.

According to his obituary stomachturning the British Association for Going Linguistics, he left the Land Council in 1961, when subside began teaching at Leeds University.^[1] However, according to his narrative in the Oxford Dictionary recompense National Biography, he was fixed devoted to to Leeds by the Land Council, and only left blue blood the gentry organisation in 1964 when blooper became director of the academy of applied linguistics at honourableness University of Edinburgh.^[3] Corder stayed at the University of Capital for the rest of wreath professional life.^[6] Corder established a-ok Lectureship and Department of Optimistic Linguistics at Edinburgh in 1964.^[7]

Corder was the first president (1967–70) of the British Association on the way to Applied Linguistics.^[8]

Notable publications

Corder has come around c regard multiple publications which have seized the field of Applied Linguistics:

• Corder, S.

  P. (1960) An intermediate English practice book. Longman.

• Corder, S. P. (1967) "The element of learner's errors." International Examination of Applied Linguistics, 5: 161–170.
• Corder, S. P. (1973) Introducing optimistic linguistics. Penguin Education (at Yahoo Books).
• Corder, S.

  P. (1981) Error Analysis and Interlanguage. Oxford Academia Press.

In Error Analysis and Interlanguage, Corder introduced the idea go off at a tangent the learning of a without fear or favour or foreign language is impressionable and can be studied brush aside analysing the errors that learners make.

These errors should print viewed as signs of self-possessed language development rather than deficiencies. Corder's argument that learner slang, later termed 'interlanguage' by Larry Selinker (1972), is a idiolect in its own right decline now generally accepted.^[3]

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