Professor
Rod Ellis
Profile
Professor Rod Ellis: University of
Auckland (New Zealand)
Chair,
Graduate School of Education; Professor,
Teaching English to Speakers of Other
Languages; Applied language studies
and Linguistics dept.
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 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.
