David Nunan, Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Anaheim University, is the founding Dean of the Anaheim University Graduate School of Education and served as President of Anaheim University from 2006 to 2008. 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. His ELT textbook series "Go For It" is the largest selling textbook series in the world with total sales exceeding 300 million. 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 at 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". David Nunan was invited by the Australian Prime Minister to attend a summit in Sydney Australia in December 1996 as one of the Leading 100 Global Australians.

Rod Ellis, Ph.D.
Chair, Graduate School of Education

Prof. Ellis, who is Chair of AU's Graduate School of Education, teaches the courses "Second Language Acquisition" and "Grammar for Language Teachers" online, as well as the part of the "Research Methods in Language Learning" course during the face-to-face residential sessions for AU's MA in TESOL degree program. In addition, Prof. Ellis co-teaches "Second Language Classroom Research" with the Dean of Anaheim University's Graduate School of Education, Dr. David Nunan.  Professor Ellis, a renowned linguist, 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.

Prof. Bailey served as a member of the worldwide USIA English Teaching Advisory Panel from 1992-95. In 1998, she was president of the international TESOL organization. She was a member of the editorial board of TESOL Quarterly and Prospect, the Australian journal of applied linguistics. She co-edited five books: Foreign Teaching Assistants in US Universities; Second Language Acquisition Studies; New Ways in Teaching Speaking; Voices from the Language Classroom; and Language Testing Research. Her articles have appeared in TESOL Quarterly, TESOL Newsletter, Language Learning, and various anthologies. She is the co-author of Focus on the Classroom: An Introduction to Classroom Research, and Pursuing Professional Development: The Self as Source, and the author of Learning About Language Assessment: Dilemmas, Decisions and Directions . She was the recipient of the 1985 Allen Griffin Award for Outstanding Higher Education Teacher of the Monterey Peninsula.

Professor Cummings received her doctorate from Teachers College Columbia University. She has taught online MA TESOL course for the New School Online University and The Monterey Institute of International Studies, as well as ESL courses for the University of Aizu in Aizuwakamatsu, Japan, where she lived from 2002-2006. She has also lived and worked in New York City; Paris, France; Bratislava, (the former Czechoslovakia); Monterey, California; and Thermopolis, Wyoming.  As part of the United States Department of State English Language Specialist Program, she has trained English language teachers in Cyprus, Thailand, Tunisia, and Turkey. She is co-author of two intermediate-level ESL textbooks, Changes, and Inspired to Write, published by Cambridge University Press, and author of numerous academic articles and short stories. She has served on the Nominating Committee of TESOL and is currently a member of the Standing Committee on Diversity.

A renowned linguist, 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. Most recently, Prof. Wajnryb has served as the word/language columnist for Australia's leading newspaper, the Sydney Morning Herald. Prof. Wajnryb has taught the courses Classroom Management & Observation, Phonology for Language Teachers and Program Evaluation in Language Education for AU's MA in TESOL degree program.