John Klapper is Director of the Centre for Modern Languages and Professor of Foreign Language Pedagogy, University of Birmingham. He is a trained teacher, a member of the ILT, a HEFCE National Teaching Fellow and from 1997-2001 co-directed the FDTL-funded DOPLA project. His current research interests are language teacher education, factors predictive of success in foreign language learning and the development of undergraduate language competence. He has published on different aspects of the learning and teaching of foreign languages, including teaching methodology, content-based learning, L2 reading, and has produced various commercial materials for the teaching and learning of German and Russian.

Contact: j.m.klapper@bham.ac.uk