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Robert Meurant gained his BArch (Hons) (1979) and PhD in Architecture (1984) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and his MA in Applied Linguistics (2007) from the University of New England, Australia. He is Founding Director of the Institute of Traditional Studies, an independent research institute and think tank, which he established in 1984 to encourage contemplative scholarship from within a traditional perspective. He has published six books and well over 50 refereed papers on applied linguistics and ICT, structural morphology, traditional architecture and geometry, space habitation and structures, natural harmony and ontology, and Asian Studies. His current research interests include the impact of the convergence of ICT on Applied Linguistics and SLA, with particular regard to EFL/ESL in East Asia.Specialties: Impacts of ICT and Convergence on Second Language Learning, CALL, use of iPad and Apps in EFL/ESL, philosophy of traditional art and architecture, sacred geometry, traditional symbolism, structural geometry, spatial morphology, polyhedral geometry, space habitation, space structures, Asian studies, etc.