Graduate School of Education
The Anaheim University Graduate School of Education is the first graduate school within the University and one of the first graduate schools in the United States to offer an online Masters degree program taught almost entirely online through real-time synchronous study.
Its Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), Master of Arts and Graduate Diploma programs in TESOL are taught by twelve world-acclaimed authors and linguists including the Dean of the Graduate School of Education Dr. David Nunan, former President of TESOL, Inc. Dr. Nunan is author of a number of widely used academic textbooks.
The Chair of the School of Education is British linguist Rod Ellis, an Oxford University Press Duke of Edinburgh Award-Winning author of the 824-page textbook The Study of Second Language Acquisition. Dr. Ellis is often referred to as the Father of Second Language Acquisition.
Other notable professors include former Presidents of TESOL Dr. Kathleen Bailey, Dr. Denise Murray, Dr. MaryAnn Christison and Dr. Jun Liu, CALL expert Dr. Ken Beatty, Dr. Martha Cummings of Columbia University, Materials Experts Brian Tomlinson and Dr. Fran Byrnes, and Sociolinguists Dr. Gary Barkhuizen and Andy Curtis. One of the founding TESOL Professors at Anaheim University Emeritus Dr. Ruth Wajnryb, an Australian linguist and Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press author passed away in 2012.
Within the Anaheim University Graduate School of Education is the Anaheim University David Nunan TESOL Institute, a division of the school offering certificate and undergraduate diploma programs in TESOL and Teaching English to Young Learners.
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