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Rod Ellis - Host
Jun Liu - in person
Denise Murray & Andy Curtis- via Webcam
Rod Ellis
Anaheim University Vice-President of Academic Affairs & Dean, Graduate School of Education
Dr. Rod Ellis is a world-renowned thought leader in the field of Second Language Acquisition. Prof. Ellis, who is Vice-President of Academic Affairs, Dean of Anaheim University's Graduate School of Education and Designer of AU's Online Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in TESOL, has been a TESOL Professor for the Graduate School of Education since 1998. He 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 served as the Director of the Institute of Language Teaching and Learning at the University of Auckland and 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, is author of the Oxford University Press Duke of Edinburgh Award-Winning Classic "The Study of Second Language Acquisition" as well as 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. In 2002, Dr. Ellis 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 at Anaheim University.
Denise Murray
Denise Murray is TESOL Professor at Anaheim University. She has served as President of TESOL from 1996-1997 and on the Board of Directors of TESOL for 7 years. Dr. Murray is Emeritus Professor at Macquarie University, Australia, and at San José State University, California. She was Executive Director of the AMEP Research Centre and of the National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research (NCELTR) at Macquarie University from 2000 to 2006. Prior to her appointment at Macquarie, she was founding Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Language Development at San José State University for 9 years. Her research centers around computer-assisted language learning; cross-cultural literacy; use of L1 in the second language classroom; intersection of language, society and technology; settlement of adult immigrants; language education policy; and leadership in language education. She has published her work in 17 books and more than 100 articles in professional journals, as book chapters, or conference proceedings. She edited two volumes in 2008: Planning Change; Changing Plans: Innovations in Second Language Teaching (University of Michigan Press) and Leadership in English Language Education: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Skills for Changing Times (2009; co-edited with M.A. Christison). In 2011, she co-authored (with M.A. Christison) two volumes on teacher education: What English Language Teachers Need to Know I: Understanding Learning and What English Language Teachers Need to Know II: Facilitating Learning.
Andy Curtis
Dr. Andy Curtis is a TESOL professor at Anaheim University and an expert in the field of Intercultural Communications. He has worked with teachers and learners in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, as well as in North, South and Central America He has published articles in journals such as TESOL Quarterly, TESL-EJ and System, in addition to several books and books chapters. He obtained a teaching degree (BEd) at Sunderland University in England, then a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics with English Language Teaching, and a PhD in International Education at the University of York in England. From 2007 to 2011, Andy Curtis was the Director of the English Language Teaching Unit at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at CUHK. Prior to these appointments, from 2002 to 2006, he was first the Director and then the Executive Director of the School of English at Queen’s University in Canada, and from 2001 to 2002, he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Language Teacher Education at the School for International Training, Vermont, USA.
Dr. Curtis has co-authored Pursuing Professional Development: The Self as Source (2001) with Kathleen Bailey and David Nunan, and co-edited Color, Race, and English Language Teaching: Shades of Meaning (2006) with Mary Romney, and English Language Assessment and the Chinese Learner (2009) with Liying Cheng.
