The stories of English – development of the language from Anglo-Saxon times to the present

David Crystal is currently patron of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) and the Association for Language Learning (ALL), President of the UK National Literacy Association, and an Honorary Vice-President of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, the Institute of Linguists, and the Society for Editors and Proofreaders, and Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. The lecture is in conjunction with the English Speaking Union and will be focusing on the way accents and dialects have evolved in parallel with the standard language - and continue to evolve worldwide