About me
Diane Schmitt was a Senior Lecturer in EFL/TESOL for 25 years at Nottingham Trent University in the UK and now works as an independent educational consultant. She has given presentations, workshops and seminars for students and teachers in over 30 countries. Her interests include all aspects of English for academic purposes, vocabulary acquisition and pedagogy, writing from sources/plagiarism, materials development, English Medium Instruction, and quality assurance. Her work has appeared in journals such as Language Teaching, ELTJ, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Reading in a Foreign Language, and Language Testing. Together with Norbert Schmitt, she has co-authored Vocabulary in Language Teaching 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and Focus on Vocabulary Books 1 & 2 (Pearson, 2011). Most recently, she has authored a series of vocabulary textbooks for Swedish secondary schools.
