Biography
Norbert Schmitt is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham. After teaching EFL in Japan he completed a Nottingham doctorate on vocabulary knowledge under Michael McCarthy, then spent his career there researching second-language vocabulary acquisition, formulaic language, and language testing. He has published numerous books and articles that shaped how teachers and testers conceptualise lexical breadth and depth. His Arnold Introduction to Applied Linguistics distils that experience for newcomers to the discipline.
Published writings & editorial work
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Authored / principal writer
- An Introduction to Applied Linguistics
First published 2002 · Edward Arnold / Hodder Arnold
Author
Edward Arnold's graduate-level survey of applied linguistics — language teaching methodology, second-language acquisition, language testing, classroom discourse, and language policy. Published in the firm's applied-linguistics list alongside the journal Language Testing.
Selected work at other imprints
All authors' recent work →Recent books by Norbert Schmitt published outside the Arnold catalogue, listed for context. Each title is the work of its named publisher; Arnold Publishers does not distribute or hold rights to these editions.
- Vocabulary in Language Teaching, 2nd Edition
Cambridge University Press, 2020 · co-author · ISBN 9781108476829
- An Introduction to Applied Linguistics, 3rd Edition
Routledge, 2020 · co-editor · ISBN 9781138290136
- Language Power: 100 Things You Need to Know to Make Language Work for You
Lioncrest Publishing, 2023 · ISBN 9781961953000