Anaheim University President David Nunan becomes World's Leading Textbook Authorp

The English Language Teaching textbooks series "Go For It!" authored by Anaheim University President Dr. David Nunan, has become the largest selling textbook series in the world with annual sales of over 50 million copies, and total sales exceeding 300 million copies. The "Go For It!" series, published in cooperation between Thomson Learning and the People's Education Press (PEP), was recently selected and adapted as a basal textbook series for middle schools in China, and is being used as part of the curriculum reforms in 29 Chinese provinces.

About DAVID NUNAN
David Nunan, currently serves as President for Anaheim University, and has been with the California-based institution since its founding in 1996, when he played a central part in the development of the University's ground-breaking interactive online learning system. Dr. Nunan is a world-renowned linguist and best-selling author of English Language Teaching textbooks for Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Thomson Learning. In 2000, David Nunan served as President of TESOL, the world's largest language teaching association, and was the first person to serve as President from outside North America. David Nunan has served as Chair and Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong since 1994 and has been involved in the teaching of graduate programs for such prestigious institutions as Columbia University, the University of Hawaii, Monterey Institute for International Studies, and many more. In 2002 Dr. Nunan received a congressional citation from the United States House of Representatives for his services to English language education through his pioneering work in online education through Anaheim University. In 2003 he was ranked the 7th most influential Australian in Asia by Business Review Weekly and in 2005 he was named one of the top "50 Australians who Matter". In November 2006 Dr. Nunan was awarded the Convocation medal for outstanding achievement and contribution internationally to the profession of Teaching English as a second language, from Flinders University, where he earned his Ph.D. in Education and Linguistics. In December 2006 David Nunan was invited by the Australian Prime Minister to attend the Advance Leading 100 Global Australians Summit in Sydney, Australia.

Anaheim University, California State University of Fullerton and Alliant International University, have come together to co-host an English language teaching seminar and four-day workshop featuring Anaheim University's world-renowned faculty. The sessions will be conducted by professors from Anaheim University's Graduate School of Education, including Anaheim's Dean Dr. David Nunan, former President of the world's largest language teaching organization TESOL and the world's leading author of over 100 English language teaching textbooks and journals with worldwide textbook sales exceeding 1,000,000,000; Anaheim University Chair of the School of Education Dr. Rod Ellis who is known throughout the world as the Father of Second Language Acquisition; and former TESOL President and renowned American linguist Dr. Kathleen Bailey. The event will be held in Orange County, California at Alliant International University's Irvine Learning Center and on the campus of California State University of Fullerton. Teachers of English as a Foreign Language from all over the world will be flying in to attend this event from October 30th through November 2nd 2008 with a seminar open to the public at no charge being held on the campus of Cal State Fullerton on Saturday, November 1st.

Anaheim University's Chair of the Board of Advisors, Dr. Clive L. Grafton, who was a Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Education at the University of Southern California for 23 years, stated, "I'm truly pleased with the worldwide impact of our English teacher training programs. We have been working with Alliant International University for the past 8 years and we are pleased to cooperate with Cal State Fullerton. To date our focus has been on promoting English language education in Asia where we have worked with local governments to run these types of workshops. We have launched a major initiative in Japan and South Korea where we have run seminar alliances with some of Asia's most prestigious institutions including Sophia University in Japan and Seoul National University in Korea. We are currently a market leader in English teacher training in Japan where we host a learning center and our programs are growing rapidly. We have recently entered into an agreement with our Korean partner E-Future, a publishing company focusing on children's English language education, and are launching teacher certification programs to both teachers of adults and children in Korea with plans to launch programs in China, Malaysia and Taiwan in 2009. However we are happy to see our work coming back home where we have a lot of work to do here in Southern California. Cut backs in public funding have resulted in less resources and learning opportunities for our local school teachers and we are here to address this problem. We welcome public and private school teachers and university faculty from all California schools to take part in this exciting opportunity."

Dr. Rod Ellis, Chair of the Anaheim University Graduate School of Education spoke on behalf of Anaheim University at Seoul National University on Tuesday June 17th. As the second part in the Seminar Series of the TESOL Alliance between the Seoul National University Foreign Language Education Research Institute and the Anaheim University Graduate School of Education, Dr. Rod Ellis gave a lecture entitled "Written Corrective Feedback" on the campus of Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea. In attendance were students, faculty and the general public.

Summary:
How teachers correct second language (L2) students' writing is a topic that has attracted enormous interest from researchers and teachers alike. However, as a recent review of feedback on L2 students' writing (Hyland and Hyland 2006) makes clear, despite all the research there are still no clear answers to the questions researchers have addressed. In this talk I examine the various options (both familiar and less familiar) for correcting students' written work. I will focus on just one kind of correction - the correction of linguistic errors - and consider studies that have examined the different options by way of illustrating how they have been investigated and the limitations in the research to date. I will argue that identifying the options in a systematic way is essential for both determining whether written corrective feedback is effective and, if it is, what kind of corrective feedback is most effective.

About Dr. Rod Ellis
Dr. Rod Ellis is Chair of the Anaheim University Graduate School of Education. A renowned linguist, Dr. Ellis received his Doctorate from the University of London and his Master of Education from the University of Bristol. A former professor at Temple University both in Japan and the US, Prof. Ellis has taught in numerous positions in England, Japan, the US, Zambia and New Zealand. Dr. Ellis, who is known as an expert in Second Language Acquisition, has served as the Director of the Institute of Language Teaching and Learning at the University of Auckland. Author of numerous student and teacher-training textbooks for Prentice Hall and Oxford University Press, Prof. Ellis's textbooks on Second Language Acquisition and Grammar are core textbooks in TESOL and Linguistics programs around the world.

ABOUT ANAHEIM UNIVERSITY
Anaheim University is a pioneering online institution of higher learning, founded in Orange County, California in 1996. The University operates under the approval of the State of California in accordance with the requirements set forth by the Bureau for Private Post-Secondary and Vocational Education, and is authorized to grant graduate degrees at the master level under the degree-granting authority of the Bureau for Private Post-Secondary and Vocational Education. The University currently offers an Online Masters degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (MA TESOL) as well as an Online Global Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree. With its administrative offices located in the city of Anaheim, the University hosts a state-of-the-art High Definition Digital Film and Editing Studio for live online broadcasting and online learning resource creation in Irvine, California. In addition, the Anaheim University Akio Morita Learning Center's classroom facilities, located in the Minami Aoyama area of Minato-ku, Tokyo offers local support services for students in Japan. The University, through its state-of-the-art computer-mediated learning environment, provides opportunities for students around the globe to interact with the most renowned experts in their fields allowing them to both further their knowledge and advance their professional skills in a user-friendly and interactive environment. 100% of the University's professors are experienced professionals holding doctoral degrees from accredited universities.

To Students, Faculty and Staff of Anaheim University:
It is with great sadness that I report to you the death of Professor Larry Sechrest while he wason sabbatical leave from Anaheim University. Dr. Sechrest had a long and distinguished career with Anaheim University where inhis Global Economics course, he took generations of Anaheim students through the complexities of international economics. Professor Sechrest had that rare talent of being able to make difficult concepts understandable for his students. At the same time, hemade challenging courses enjoyable, even fun for them. He will be missed by all of us, but those who were fortunate enough to know him, will be the better for that experience.
William Hartley, Ph.D.
President, Anaheim University

Dr. Larry Sechrest
1946-2008

Larry J. Sechrest was an MBA Faculty Member of the Anaheim University Akio Morita School of Business, a Research Fellow at The Independent Institute, and Professor of Economics and Director of the Free Enterprise Institute at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Arlington, where his undergraduate work was in history and philosophy with graduate work in economics and finance. He was a Foundation Scholar with the Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education in New York City and also served as a Trustee of the Free Radical Foundation in Wellington, New Zealand and on the Board of Advisors of the Defense of Freedom Foundation in Newport Beach, California.

He was the author of Free Banking: Theory, History, and a Laissez-Faire Model as well as articles in periodical publications such as the Cato Journal, the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics,, the Journal of Economics, the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, the South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, Advances in Austrian Economics, the Review of Austrian Economics, Reason Papers, the Freeman, Ideas on Liberty, The Free Radical, the Review of Business, the Journal of Services Marketing, and in reference works such as The Myth of National Defense, Fifteen Great Austrian Economists, and Magill’s Survey of Social Science: Economics.

Dr. Sechrest presented papers or given invited lectures in Washington, D.C., San Francisco; New Orleans; New York City; Houston, Texas; Auburn, Alabama (on several occasions); Oberlin, Ohio; Charlottesville, Virginia; San Antonio, Texas; Charleston, South Carolina; Columbia, South Carolina; Cancun, Mexico; and York, England. In addition, he had been elected to membership in the prestigious New York Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the Editorial Boards of both the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies.