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Jack C. Richards obtained an M.A. degree in English from Victoria University in Wellington in 1966. He obtained his Ph.D. in applied linguistics from Laval University in Quebec City in 1972. After completing his Ph.D., he taught in Indonesia and was then appointed specialist in applied linguistics at the Regional Language Centre (RELC) in Singapore. Later he was senior lecturer in English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, before being appointed full professor in the Department of English as a Second Language at the University of Hawaii in 1981. In 1989 he returned to Hong Kong to set up a new department of English at the City University of Hong Kong as head of the department of English and also chair professor. In 1996 he returned to his home country for two years to set up an M.A.program at the University of Auckland. In 1999 he retired from full-time university teaching and administration and since then has taught for part of each year at the RELC. He has written over 60 articles and 20 books. His most recent publication is The Cambridge Guide to Second Language Teacher Education (with Anne Burns, Cambridge University Press, 2009). His classroom textbooks are also widely used and have helped millions of students around the world learn English. These include Springboard, Person to Person, Tactics for Listening, Passages, and the best-selling series Interchange.