Professor
Paul NationProfile page
Emeritus Professor
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
Orcid identifier0000-0002-2920-9874
- Emeritus ProfessorSchool of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
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- VZ 415, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand
BIO
Paul Nation is Emeritus Professor in Applied Linguistics at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies (LALS) at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His specialist interests are the teaching and learning of vocabulary and language teaching methodology.
He has taught in Indonesia, Thailand, the United States, Finland and Japan.
His resources (publications, word lists, graded readers, free books, language teaching videos, vocabulary tests, vocabulary analysis programs, vocabulary bibliography) can be found at https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/paul-nations-resources. These include a free book called What do you need to know to learn a foreign language? (look under Publications), and most of his articles for free download.
Sonia Millett's speed reading courses and listening fluency material can also be found at https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/speed-reading-and-listening-fluency on the LALS resources page.
He has taught in Indonesia, Thailand, the United States, Finland and Japan.
His resources (publications, word lists, graded readers, free books, language teaching videos, vocabulary tests, vocabulary analysis programs, vocabulary bibliography) can be found at https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/paul-nations-resources. These include a free book called What do you need to know to learn a foreign language? (look under Publications), and most of his articles for free download.
Sonia Millett's speed reading courses and listening fluency material can also be found at https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/speed-reading-and-listening-fluency on the LALS resources page.