Outstanding young 12-year-old Australian pianist – Joshua Han – who is sponsored by Jack Richards, was the first prize winner in the junior division at the Ettlingen International Piano Competition for young pianists, at Ettlingen, Germany in August 2014. Joshua received the highest mark ever awarded – 99.9%.
Previous prize winners at this prestigious competition have included Lang Lang and Yuja Wang.
See here to watch Joshua’s winning performance.
See here for more about the competition.
Jack Richards and Kiri Te Kanawa at a function at the Royal Opera House, London, in March, to celebrate Dame Kiri’s birthday and long association with the Royal Opera House
Click here to see Professor Richards being interviewed by Hayo Reinders about his new book, Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching Third Edition, published in March 2014.
Towards a Pedagogy of Grammar Instruction by Jack C Richards and Randi Reppen, was published in RELC Journal 2014, 45, 5-25.
The first performance of Gareth Farr’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, commissioned by Jack Richards, was performed with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and pianist Tony Lee on March 28, 2014. The concerto has received rave reviews on its first performance. Read the reviews here, here and here.
The third edition of Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching was published in March 2014 by Cambridge University Press..
The journal of the Mexican TESOL Association – MEXTESOL Journal – will shortly celebrate its 40th anniversary. To celebrate the anniversary the journal will add a special feature to each issue, described as “A Vintage Article–an article that has had great influence on our readers or that has a place in the history of ELT.” They have chosen to feature an article by Jack Richards published in the journal in 1994 entitled Teacher Thinking and Foreign Language Teaching.
In 2013 Dr. Richards’ birthday celebration was held at the Sydney Conservatory of Music.
The new Jack C Richards Decorative Art Gallery, part of the Tairawhiti Museum in Gisborne, New Zealand, opened on 16th May, 2014.