KAPLAN, Robert B.

KAPLAN, Robert B. American, b. 1929. Genres: Language/Linguistics, Speech/Rhetoric. Career: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Coordinator, English communication program for foreign students, 1961-65, assistant professor of English, 1963-65, associate professor, chairman, Linguistics Dept., and director, English Communication, 1965-72, professor, 1972-95, associate dean, continuing education, 1973-76, director, American Language Institute, 1986-91, emeritus professor, 1995-. National Association for Foreign Student Affairs, field service consultant, 1966-86, president, 1983; Association of Teachers of English as a Second Language, president, 1968; Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, general ed., 1981-90; Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, president, 1990; American Association for Applied Linguistics, president, 1993-94; Meikai University, Japan, visiting professor, 1998-99; Current Issues in Language Planning, co-general editor, 1999-. Publications: The Anatomy of Rhetoric, 1971; Migrants in the Workplace, 1980; Language Planning in Nepal, Sweden, and Taiwan, 2000; Language Planning in Botswana, Hungary, Ivory Coast and Vanuatu, 2000. EDITOR: Reading and Rhetoric, 1963; On the Scope of Applied Linguistics, 1980; (co) Language Planning in Malawi, Mozambique and the Philippines, 1999; Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics, 2002. WITH OTHERS: Transformational Grammar: A Guide for Teachers, 1968; English at Your Fingertips, 1969; Exploring Academic Discourse, 1983; Writing across Languages, 1987; Introduction to Applied Linguistics, 1991; Theory and Practice of Writing, 1996; Language Planning from Practice to Theory, 1997; Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin, 2002. Contributor to scholarly journals. Address: PO Box 577, Port Angeles, WA 98362, U.S.A. Online address: rkaplan@olypen.com