An Interview with Professor Rod Ellis and Professor Jack C Richards

Professor Rod Ellis and Professor Jack C Richards are both distinguished world known professors in the field of ELT. Both these scholars delivered plenary speeches at the International Conference on Current Trends in ELT which was held by the Department of English Language and Literature of Urmia University, Iran, between 20 and 22 May 2013. A short joint interview was arranged with them during the conference, and what follows is these scholars’ views on various questions posed in the interview. The interview was coordinated by Karim Sadeghi (the Conference Academic Organizer) and was conducted by Sima Khezrlou and Heidar Abdi (both PhD candidates in TEFL at Urmia University). In the following transcript, RE stands for Rod Ellis, JCR stands for Jack C Richards, SK stands for Sima Khezrlou and HA stands for Heidar Abdi.