Past Keynote Speakers

Professor Rod Ellis (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Professor Rod Ellis is a Professor in the Department Applied Language Studies and Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is also a TESOL Professor and Chair of the Graduate School of Education at Anaheim University in Anaheim, University, California where he teaches various online courses in the Master of Arts in TESOL. Professor Ellis’s textbooks on Second Language Acquisition and Grammar are core textbooks in TESOL and Linguistics programs around the world.

Professor David Nunan (Anaheim University, U.S.A)

Professor David Nunan is the Academic President of Anaheim University based in Anaheim, California. Nunan also serves in a concurrent role as the Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Professor of TESOL and Anaheim University. A renowned linguist, Professor Nunan’s ELT textbook series “Go For It” is the largest selling textbook series in the world with sales exceeding 700 million.