Wilga Rivers

Wilga Rivers (13 April 1919 - 23 June 2007) was an Australian academic and writer. She was a Professor Emerita of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She studied and wrote about teaching languages. Rivers was an early supporter of the change from the audiolingual method to more communicative and interactive language teaching. Rivers was born in Melbourne, Australia and died in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Writing

"The Psychologist and the Foreign-Language Teacher". University of Chicago Press, 1964.
"Teaching Foreign-Language Skills". University of Chicago Press, 1968 & 1981.
"A Practical Guide to the Teaching of English as a Second or Foreign Language". Oxford University Press, 1978.
"Communicating Naturally In A Second Language". Cambridge University Press, 1983.
"Interactive Language Teaching". Cambridge University Press, 1987.

↑ Di Fabio, Elvira; Stone, Donald and Frommer, Judith (20 November 2008). "Wilga Marie Rivers, Faculty of Arts and Sciences — Memorial Minute". Harvard University Gazette. The President and Fellows of Harvard College. Retrieved 5 April 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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Approaches	Communicative approach Comprehension approach Dogme language teaching Lexical approach Natural approach Sociocultural learning theory Whole language learning
Methods	Audio-lingual method Community language learning CALL Content-based instruction CLIL Direct Method Extensive reading Grammar-translation method Language immersion Pimsleur system PPP Silent way Suggestopaedia Task-based language learning
Techniques	Back-chaining Dictogloss Jigsaw techniques Shadowing Total physical response
Key concepts	Critical period hypothesis English as a lingua franca Input hypothesis Fossilization Interlanguage Language transfer Learnability/teachability hypothesis Needs analysis Output hypothesis Second-language acquisition Syllabus World Englishes
Assessment	Language assessment CEFR DIALANG IELTS TOEFL TOEIC UCLES
Professional organizations	IATEFL TESOL
Important people	Betty Azar H. Douglas Brown Pit Corder Jim Cummins Rod Ellis Stephen Krashen Diane Larsen-Freeman Michael Lewis Paul Nation Alastair Pennycook Patricia A. Richard-Amato Jack C. Richards Wilga Rivers Earl Stevick Scott Thornbury Henry Widdowson