Founders of the MA TEFL Program
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IN MEMORIAM |
RUSSELL N. CAMPBELL, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics & TESL, Los Angeles
The following bio has been adapted from the UCLA website:
Professor Russ Campbell was Founding Dean of the AUA's Department of English Programs and was actively engaged in assisting the growth and development of AUA, holding the position of Dean until he passed away in 2003. In 1991, on his trip to Armenia, he became involved in testing the first group of applicants to AUA. He understood Armenia's needs to train English language teachers, and consequently developed AUA's Certificate Program in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Finally, he brought into existence the Master's Program in Teaching English as a Foreign Language in 2002.
Professor Campbell was a leader in the field. He served as president of TESOL (Teacher of English to Speakers of other Languages) from 1971 to 1972 and developed the concept of the TESOL Summer Institute, organizing the first one at UCLA in the summer of 1979. His most recent contribution to TESOL was the establishment of the TESOL Research Fund. His lifelong commitment to language education was realized in a variety of capacities in many countries all over the world: Director of the English Language Institute, American University of Cairo, Coordinator of Peace Corps Training Programs in Thailand, Iran, Nigeria and Ethiopia, Consultant for The Ford Foundation in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt, and for the United States Information Service in Italy, Tunisia and Jordan, as a Fulbright Grantee in Peru, and as U.S. State Department Representative to TESL Seminars in Rumania, Poland, and Yugoslavia.
MARIANNE CELCE-MURCIA, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita, Department of Applied Linguistics and TESL, UCLA, Los Angeles
The following bio has been adapted from the University of California website:
Marianne Celce-Murcia, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics & TESL at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she taught and mentored graduate students for thirty years. Professor Celce-Murcia has published widely in the areas of language teaching methodology (including discourse-based approaches), the teaching of pronunciation, and pedagogical grammar. Both at UCLA and at AUA she has worked with professionals who are non-native speakers of English in need of improving their spoken and written English to progress professionally.
Professor Celce-Murcia served as Dean of the AUA's Department of English Programs from 2003 through 2007.
ANTONY JOHN KUNNAN, Ph.D.Professor, California State University, Los Angeles
The following bio has been adapted from the Cal State LA page:
Antony John Kunnan areas of expertise lie in language testing, language planning and policy and ethics and educational research. He is the author of Test Taker Characteristics and Test Performance: A Structural Modeling Approach (Cambridge, 1995, editor of Validation in Language Assessment (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998), editor of Fairness and Validation in Language Assessment (Cambridge, 1999), and co-author (with Lyle Bachman) of Workbook and CD for Statistical analyses for language assessment (2005).
He is a frequent keynote speaker in Asia and Europe; in 2010, he gave talks at Shanghai Jiatong University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the Language Testing and Training Center, Taipei, the American University of Armenia, and the Association of Language Testers of Europe Conference in Prague. In 2004, he was also the President of the International Language Testing Association and currently he is the editor of Language Assessment Quarterly. He is now working on many research and publication projects: one of them is an edited 4-volume 150-chapter Companion to Language Assessment (print and on-line version) to be published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2013.
Professor Antony John Kunnan served as Dean of the AUA's Department of English Programs from 2007 through 2011.