Faculty
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Meet Our Faculty
Learn from internationally recognized TESOL scholars, including past presidents of TESOL International Association and authors of widely used textbooks, who bring research and classroom experience into every course.
Program Leadership
The faculty who designed and direct the program.
Vice President of Academic Affairs and designer of the Doctor of Education in TESOL program.
Designer of the Master of Arts in TESOL and Director of the David Nunan TESOL Institute.
Chair of Research and Senior TESOL Professor in the Graduate School of Education.
Professors
11 faculty
Past President of TESOL International Association (1997–1998) and author of 18 books on language teaching.
A leading expert on materials development for language learning and founder of MATSDA.
Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) specialist and author of more than 140 textbooks and readers.
Doctorate from Columbia University Teachers College; researches classroom management and observation.
Professor of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa; specialist in reading and testing.
Victoria University of Wellington; co-author of Language Curriculum Design with Paul Nation.
Director of the Self-Access Learning Center at Kanda University of International Studies; learner autonomy specialist.
Professor at University College Dublin, known for research on processing instruction.
Specialist in second language acquisition, corrective feedback and gesture in language learning.
Professor of Language and Linguistics at Gunma Prefectural Women’s University; second language acquisition researcher.
Associate Professors
5 faculty
Associate Professor of Linguistics at Boise State University, with 20+ years teaching English to adults.
Associate Professor of TESOL and Applied Linguistics at the UCL Institute of Education, London.
Ph.D. from McGill University; researches how second language research can be applied in the classroom.
Ph.D. from the University of Auckland; researches task-based instruction and written corrective feedback.
Researches how learners acquire and process vocabulary and formulaic language.
Assistant Professors
3 faculty
Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Auckland; researches L2 motivation and task-based teaching.
Raised bilingually in Brazil and educated in Japan; researches bilingual development.
Professor at Waseda University, Tokyo; co-author of Exploring Psychology in Language Learning and Teaching.
