Anaheim University Announces Ruth Wajnryb TESOL Scholarship and Rod Ellis TESOL Scholarship

 

On March 15th, 2011 the Anaheim University Board of Trustees announced the establishment of scholarships named in honor of two of the founding faculty of the Anaheim University Graduate School of Education. The Anaheim University Ruth Wajnryb TESOL Scholarship in the amount of US$15,000 will be awarded annually to one student enrolling in the Online MA TESOL program, and the Anaheim University Rod Ellis TESOL Scholarship will be awarded in the amount of US$15,000 to one student enrolling in the Online Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in TESOL program, which is currently in development. These scholarships will be awarded annually on a need and merit basis, and will be available from 2012. The two globally acclaimed linguists have committed over a decade of service to Anaheim University.

 

Ruth WajnrybRuth Wajnryb, Ph.D.

Anaheim University's TESOL Professor Emeritus Dr. Ruth Wajnryb, received her Ph.D. in Education/Linguistics from Macquarie University and her MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Sydney. Former Head of TESOL Teacher Education at the University of New South Wales's Institute of Languages, Professor Wajnryb has held a variety of teaching and consulting positions and authored a number of teacher training and Intercultural Studies textbooks for Cambridge University Press and Melting Pot Press. Prof. Wajnryb has served as the word/language columnist for Australia's leading newspaper, the Sydney Morning Herald.

 

rod ellis2Rod Ellis, Ph.D.

Anaheim University TESOL Chair Professor Rod 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 the "Father of 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.