NS Prabhu
National University of Singapore, Singapore
N S Prabhu retired from the English Department of the National University of Singapore in 1994. Earlier he worked for many years as an English Language Specialist for the British Council in southern India, and in that time carried out a 5-year project of teaching English in state primary schools employing task-based activity. The project was reported in his book Second Language Pedagogy and has been widely referred to in the literature as the Bangalore Project.