Every time I think about that talk, I smile. Indeed, that even comparing such a unique multi-competent individual with a monolingual speaker made no sense, we were qualitatively different like apples and pears. That’s when I first learnt that I was not a failed English native speaker, but a wonderful new creature with an array of knowledge and competencies. He arrived, immediately tripped over the microphone cable and almost fell on the floor, and started stuttering.
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I had no idea who he was, or how to come back from North London. She told me that the speaker was one of the most important applied linguists in the world. I was attending the MA Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck, when a classmate dragged me to this talk somewhere in North London. I had just arrived in the UK and I did not understand a thing. I remember very well the first time I saw Vivian and heard him talking about his approach. Vivian kept being amazed at how far multi-competence had travelled (and hoping that people would remember to spell it with a hyphen). Over the decades, multi-competence has been influential in second language research, and also adopted in other fields, from signed-spoken bimodal bilingualism to Native American Languages. This affects the whole mind, including non-linguistic cognition, hence the multi-competent L2 user is qualitatively different from a monolingual.
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Multi-competence posits that the mind of an L2 user (or community) contains a system composed of all their languages. Over time, linguistic multi-competence developed from “the compound state of a mind with two grammars” (= two languages) in 1991 to “the overall system of a mind or a community that uses more than one language” in the 2016 Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Multi-competence, reflecting Vivian’s thinking and developments in the field. His main contribution has been linguistic multi-competence (with a hyphen, as he insisted), an approach to second language acquisition he first presented in 1991. Anyone who met him will remember him as a brilliant mind and an incredibly generous person. A prolific and influential author, Vivian was a theoriser and a popular writer. Vivian will be known to most scholars in the field for his work on second language acquisition, particularly the concept of multi-competence. Cook, Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University. We have sadly lost a leading figure in applied linguistics: Vivian J.
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We will send our thoughts and deepest sympathy to Vivian’s family on behalf of EuroSLA, and update members if a memorial service will be possible in the new year. It’s also very heartwarming to see many personal tributes on Twitter and Facebook. There are two websites at the end of the Obituary for those who want to reflect on Vivian’s life and scholarship, and share any reflections or memories.
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Please see below an obituary by Dr Bene Bassetti.
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Vivian Cook was the EuroSLA founder, its first president, as well as its inaugural Distinguished Scholar. High school sophomores, juniors and seniors enrolled in UA Early College can choose from more than 80 different online and on-campus courses and earn up to 30 hours of college credit.We are sad to report the news of Vivian Cook’s passing. UA Early College allows high school students to get a head start on their college courses. The director’s list recognizes students enrolled in classes through the UA Early College program. A total of 413 students enrolled in UA Early College during Spring Semester 2022 at The University of Alabama were named to the director’s list with an academic record of 3.6 (or higher).