Pit Corder

Stephen Pit Corder (1918–1990) was Professor of Applied linguistics at the University of Edinburgh for over 20 years until his retirement in 1983.

Stephen Krashen acknowledges Corder's inspiration in developing his own Theory of second language acquisition.

Corder was the first president (1967-70) of the British Association for Applied Linguistics.

Publications

 * Corder, S. Pit (1960) An intermediate English practice book. Longman
 * Corder, S. P. (1967) "The significance of learner's errors." International Review of Applied Linguistics 5: 161-170.
 * Corder, Stephen Pit. (1973) Introducing applied linguistics Penguin Education (at Google Books)
 * Corder, S. Pit. (1981) Error Analysis and Interlanguage. Oxford University Press