Paul Seedhouse

Paul Seedhouse is Professor of Educational and Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. His monograph The Interactional Architecture of the Language Classroom was published by Blackwell in 2004 and won the Modern Languages Association of America Mildenberger Prize. Working with colleagues in computer science, he used two grants to build kitchens which use digital technology to teach users European languages and cuisines simultaneously www.europeandigitalkitchen. com. He has also had three grants to study interaction in the IELTS Speaking test; the IELTS Research Reports on these projects are available on the IELTS website.

Dr Paul Seedhouse is Reader in Educational and Applied Linguistics in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, where he is also Postgraduate Research Director. Following a teaching career in which he taught ESOL, German and French in five different countries, he published widely in journals of applied linguistics, language teaching and pragmatics. His monograph, The Interactional Architecture of the Language Classroom: A CA Perspective, was published by Blackwell in 2004 and won the 25th annual Kenneth W Mildenberger Prize of the Modern Language Association of America in 2005. He has also edited (with Keith Richards) the collection, Applying Conversation Analysis, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2005.

Paul Seedhouse is Professor of Educational and Applied Linguistics in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, UK. His research is in spoken interaction in relation to language learning, teaching and assessment. He has published widely in journals of applied linguistics, language teaching and pragmatics. His book, The Interactional Architecture of the Language Classroom: A Conversation Analysis Perspective, was published by Blackwell in 2004 and won the 2005 Kenneth W Mildenberger Prize of the Modern Language Association of the USA.

Paul Seedhouse is Professor of Educational and Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. Working with colleagues in Computer Science, he used three grants to build kitchens which use digital technology to teach users languages and cuisines simultaneously: https://linguacuisine.com. He has also had four grants to study interaction in the IELTS Speaking Test. The IELTS Research Reports on these projects are available on the IELTS website. His 2018 book, The Discourse of the IELTS Speaking Test, with Fumiyo Nakatsuhara is published by Cambridge University Press.