Vivian Cook

Vivian James Cook, who lived from 13 June 1940 to 10 December 2021, was a British linguist and emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University. He was known for his work on second-language acquisition and second-language teaching, and for writing textbooks and popular books about linguistics. He worked on topics such as bilingualism, English as a foreign language, first-language acquisition, second-language teaching and the English writing system, and he published more than 20 books and 100 papers. He was the founder and first President of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) and a co-founder of the journal Writing Systems Research.