Anaheim University Graduate School of Education
Anaheim University Graduate School of Education
The Anaheim University Graduate School of Education is the first graduate school within the University and is renowned for being 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 since the mid-1990s.
Its MA in TESOL degree program is taught by four world-acclaimed authors and linguists including the Dean of the Graduate School of Education Dr. David Nunan, former President of TESOL Inc., whose worldwide textbook sales exceed 300,000,000 as of 2008. Dr. Nunan is renowned for a number of his academic texts including Syllabus Design: Oxford University Press. 1988; The Learner-Centred Curriculum: Cambridge University Press 1988.; Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom. Cambridge University Press. 1989.
The Chair of the School of Education is renowned British linguist Dr. Rod Ellis, who is 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 renowned professors include American linguist Dr. Kathleen Bailey, a former President of TESOL, Inc. and Cambridge University Press author, and Dr. Ruth Wajnryb an Australian linguist and Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press author.
Within the Anaheim University Graduate School of Education is the Anaheim University David Nunan Institute for Language Education, a division of the school focusing on English language education and professional development.