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Overview

David Nunan is affiliated with Anaheim University in the United States. Their primary area of research lies within the broad field of medicine, with a strong emphasis on statistics, probability, and uncertainty. Their work also extends into subfields such as general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, economics and econometrics, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist's research focuses on various main topics including:

  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life
  • Health sciences research and education
  • Ethics in clinical research
  • Clinical practice guidelines implementation
  • Delphi technique in research
  • Health policy implementation science

David Nunan has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as:

  • BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
  • Abstracts
  • Systematic Reviews

Recent papers authored or coauthored by David Nunan include:

  • "Diabetes and COVID-19: Risks, Management, and Learnings From Other National Disasters," 2020, published in Diabetes Care
  • "A systematic review and taxonomy of tools for evaluating evidence-based medicine teaching in medical education," 2020, published in Systematic Reviews
  • "Changing patterns in reporting and sharing of review data in systematic reviews with meta-analysis of the effects of interventions: cross sectional meta-research study," 2022, published in BMJ
  • "The REPRISE project: protocol for an evaluation of REProducibility and Replicability In Syntheses of Evidence," 2021, published in Systematic Reviews
  • "What items should be included in an early warning score for remote assessment of suspected COVID-19? qualitative and Delphi study," 2020, published in BMJ Open

David Nunan frequently collaborates with several researchers in their field. Notable coauthors include:

  • Sathya Karunananthan
  • Raju Kanukula
  • Joanne E. McKenzie
  • Daniel G. Hamilton
  • Steve McDonald

Best Publications

  • Second Language Teaching & Learning

    David Nunan

  • Designing tasks for the communicative classroom

    David Nunan

  • Task-based language teaching

    David Nunan

  • The Impact of English as a Global Language on Educational Policies and Practices in the Asia-Pacific Region.

    David Nunan

  • Practical English Language Teaching

    David Nunan

  • Introducing discourse analysis

    David Nunan

  • Research methods in language learning

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  • Language Teaching Methodology: A Textbook for Teachers

    David Nunan

  • Task-Based Language Teaching: Acknowledgements

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  • The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

    Ronald Carter;David Nunan

  • The learner-centred curriculum : a study in second language teaching

    David Nunan

  • The learner-centred curriculum

    David Nunan

  • Communicative Tasks and the Language Curriculum

    David Nunan

  • El diseño de tareas para la clase comunicativa

    David Nunan

  • Collaborative Language Learning and Teaching

    Sherri K. Kobrossi;David Nunan

  • Communicative Language Teaching: Making It Work.

    David Nunan

  • Learners' Stories: Difference and Diversity in Language Learning

    Philip Benson;David Nunan

  • The Self-Directed Teacher: Managing the Learning Process.

    David Nunan;Clarice Lamb

  • Pursuing Professional Development: The Self as Source

    Kathleen M. Bailey;Andy Curtis;David Nunan

  • Closing the Gap Between Learning and Instruction

    David Nunan

  • Collaborative language learning and teaching

    David Nunan

  • Communicative Language Teaching: State of the Art

    David Nunan

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald Carter
Ronald Carter University of Nottingham
Jack C. Richards
Jack C. Richards University of Sydney
Andy Kirkpatrick
Andy Kirkpatrick Griffith University
Suzanne Romaine
Suzanne Romaine University of Oxford
David Crystal
David Crystal Bangor University

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