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Rod Ellis is currently Professor in the Department of
Applied Language Studies and Linguistics, University of
Auckland and also Visiting Professor at Shanghai International
Studies University. His published work includes articles and
books in second language acquisition and language teaching.
His books include Study of Second Language Acquisition (1994) -
with a new edition due in 2008 - , Task-Based Learning and
Teaching early (2003), and Analyzing Learner Language (2005;
co-authored), all published by Oxford University Press. His
research publications include over 100 articles on both
theoretical and practical aspects of language learning and
teaching. He has also published several English language
textbooks, including Impact Grammar (Pearson: Longman). In
addition to his current position in New Zealand, he has worked
in schools in Spain and Zambia and in universities in the
United Kingdom, Japan and the United States. He is also
currently editor of the journal Language Teaching Research.
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John Flowerdew is Professor of Applied Linguistics, Centre
for Language Education Research, School of Education,
University of Leeds. For many years he worked at the City
University of Hong Kong. He has also worked in South America
and the Middle East. As well as writing and editing a number
of books, including four edited collections on academic
discourse, he has published widely in the leading Applied
Linguistics, Language Teaching and Discourse Analysis
journals, focusing on academic discourse, corpus linguistics,
and English for Specific Purposes. His most recent book (with
Lindsay Miller) is Second Language Listening (Cambridge)
(2005). His most recent edited book (with Vijay Bhatia and
Rodney Jones) is Advances in Discourse Studies (Routledge)
(2008).
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Angel Lin received her Ph.D. in Language Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, in 1996. She has since published six books, over 70 research journal articles/book chapters, and made over 80 international conference presentations. Angel Lin is well-respected for her versatile, interdisciplinary intellectual scholarship in developing critical approaches to second and foreign language education theory and practice in postcolonial contexts. Her international impact is seen in her presence on the editorial advisory boards of a number of prestigious research journals in the field, including Linguistics and Education (as Associate Editor), Language and Education, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Pedagogies, International Multilingual Research Journal, Journal of Critical Discourse Studies, British Educational Research Journal and International Journal of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong, and Associate Director of the Youth Studies Net, City University of Hong Kong.
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Tim McNamara is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the
University of Melbourne. Building on a career as an EFL/ESL
teacher and teacher trainer in Australia and the United
Kingdom, Tim has taught Applied Linguistics at Melbourne since
1987. His research interests are in language testing, language
and identity, language teaching, languages for specific
purposes and the history of applied linguistics. Tim's
language testing research has focused on performance
assessment, theories of validity, the use of Rasch models, and
the social and political meaning of language tests (he has
recently published on the misuse of language tests in
assessing the claims of asylum seekers). His work on language
and identity has focused on the impact of postructuralist
approaches to identity and subjectivity, and he has a
particular interest in the writings on language of the French
philosopher Jacques Derrida. Tim is the author of Language
Testing (OUP, 2000) and co-author (with Carsten Roever) of
Language Testing: The Social Dimension (Blackwell, 2006). He
has acted as a consultant with Educational Testing Service,
Princeton where he worked on the development of the speaking
sub-test of TOEFL iBT; he was also one of the original
developers of IELTS. Tim is a frequent speaker at
international conferences and has served on the board of the
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Language Testing,
Language Assessment Quarterly, Applied Linguistics,
Measurement, TESOL Quarterly and the International Journal of
Applied Linguistics.
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