Rod Ellis
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Professor Rod Ellis is a Professor in the Department of Applied language studies and Linguistics at University of Auckland, New Zealand. In addition Professor Ellis is a TESOL Professor and Chair of the Graduate School of Education at Anaheim University in Anaheim, California where he teaches various online courses in the Master of Arts in TESOL. Professor Ellis Since 1980 has authored more than 30 books and 100 articles on second language acquisition.[citation needed]
Professor 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.[citation needed] Dr. Ellis has served as the Director of the Institute of Language Teaching and Learning at the University of Auckland. Professor Ellis is the leading theorist on Task Based Teaching Approaches, [1] and Senior Advisor to the international Asian EFL Journal [2] group of Linguistic journals.[citation needed] "The Study of Second Language Acquisition" will release the 2nd Edition in May 2008. A special award, the Professor Rod Ellis Award for linguistic and second language acquisition articles is found in the Asian EFL Journal. Professor Ellis selects the winning research articles which will be presented at the International Asian EFL Journal Conference, held in Korea, Taiwan, China and Japan.
Professor Ellis teaches Second Language Acquisition around the globe and presents at global conferences. He teaches TESOL in Korea [3] as well as SLA in China, USA and New Zealand.
- Ellis, R. (1999) The Study of Second Language Acquisition. OUP London
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