Wilga Rivers

Wilga Rivers (13 April 1919 - 23 June 2007) was an Australian academic and writer. She was a Professor Emerita of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She studied and wrote about teaching languages. Rivers was an early supporter of the change from the audiolingual method to more communicative and interactive language teaching. Rivers was born  in Melbourne, Australia and died in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Writing
 "The Psychologist and the Foreign-Language Teacher". University of Chicago Press, 1964.
 "Teaching Foreign-Language Skills". University of Chicago Press, 1968 & 1981.
 "A Practical Guide to the Teaching of English as a Second or Foreign Language". Oxford University Press, 1978.
 "Communicating Naturally In A Second Language". Cambridge University Press, 1983.
 "Interactive Language Teaching". Cambridge University Press, 1987.

 Related pages 
 List of women linguists

References

Other websites
 "Principles Of Interactive Language Teaching" 

Category:1919 births
Category:2007 deaths
Category:Australian writers
Category:Bilingualism and second language acquisition researchers
Category:Harvard University faculty
Category:Australian linguists