Draft:Laurence Anthony

  • Comment: There are no secondary sources, which is pretty much mandatory for a BLP. Nor are the books proven to be important (by way of reviews), so we can hardly determine notability per WP:PROF. Drmies (talk) 01:54, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Laurence Anthony
Born (1970-01-22) 22 January 1970 (age 54)
NationalityBritish
EducationBSc, MA, PhD
Alma mater
Known for
Scientific career
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WebsiteLaurence Anthony's website

Laurence Anthony (born 1970) is a Professor in the Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering at Waseda University.[1]. He is known as the developer of AntCont, a corpus analysis toolkit in the AntLab suite of tools for text processing and analysis.[2] His broader interests include educational technology, corpus linguistics, the learning and teaching of English for specific purposes, and applications of AI in each[3]

Biography

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Academic Career

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Originally from Huddersfield, UK, Anthony completed his BSc in Mathematical Physics at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology from 1988–1991 before moving to Tokyo to take up an English language teaching post.[4] Inspired to pursue a career in teaching scientific communication and developing educational and research resources[5], he completed the MA TEFL/TESL at the University of Birmingham via distance learning, and earned a distinction for his thesis on genre analysis. In 2002, he was awarded a PhD in Applied Linguistics in 2002 from the University of Birmingham for his work developing tools to automatically analyse texts at the sentence and discourse level. [6] Anthony held a lecturing post at the Okayama University of Science from 1993–2004 before commencing his current post in the Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering (CELESE) within the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Waseda University. He was Associate Professor from 2004–2009 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2009.

Anthony serves on the editorial board of the Corpus Linguistics Research Journal, the Taiwan International ESP Journal, the Journal of English Education, and the Journal of Asia TEFL. He is an advisory board member for the Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics series, Studies in Corpus Linguistics, and the English as a Global Language Education (EaGLE) Journal.

Software

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First released in 2002, the AntConc corpus analysis toolkit is primarily used by language learners and teachers and researchers in all areas of linguistics to look for patterns in a language. All [AntLab]] tools are available to download free of charge. To date, tools in the AntLab suite are cited in over 10,000 research articles and case studies [7] in the fields ofcorpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and language education.

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Personal life

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In his spare time, Anthony is a keen guitar player. He is a lifelong supporter of Manchester City F.C..

Publications

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Articles

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Books

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  • Schmitt, N.; Dunn, K.; O'Sullivan, B.; Anthony, L.; Kremmel, B. (224). Knowledge-based Vocabulary Lists. Sheffield: Routledge.
  • Anthony, L. (2018). Introducing English for Specific Purposes. Abingdon: Equinox.

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