Rod Ellis

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Professor Rod Ellis is Chair of the Graduate School of Education; Professor, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages; Applied language studies and Linguistics dept. Ellis is the director of the Institute of Language Teaching and Learning at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and since 1980 the author of more than 30 articles on second language acquisition.

Professor Ellis, a renowned linguist, received his Doctorate from the University of London and his Master of Education from the University of Bristol. A former professor at Temple University both in Japan and the US. Prof. Ellis has taught in numerous positions in England, Japan, the US, Zambia and New Zealand. Dr. Ellis, who is known as the "Father of Second Language Acquisition", has served as the Director of the Institute of Language Teaching and Learning at the University of Auckland. Author of numerous student and teacher training textbooks for Prentice Hall and Oxford University Press, Prof. Ellis's textbooks on Second Language Acquisition and Grammar are core textbooks in TESOL and Linguistics programs around the world.

He is senior advisor to the Asian EFL Journal, [1] and Linguistics Journal [2]

His seminal article, Principles of Instructed Language Learning lists 10 principles that all TESOL practitioners are advised to consider in the SLA classroom.