Professor Rod Ellis
Curtin University, Australia
Rod Ellis is a Distinguished Research Professor in Curtin University (Australia), a longstanding professor at Anaheim University, visiting professor at Shanghai International Studies University and Emeritus Distinguished Professor of the University of Auckland. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has written extensively on second language acquisition and task-based language teaching. His most recent (co-authored) book is Task-based Language Teaching: Theory and Practice (2020) published by Cambridge University Press.
Jane’s “classroom” is our world, with her first classroom at the Berlitz School in Paris, France, then at the British School of Milan, Italy, and at the International School of Milan for First Grade. In the United States she was a bilingual Italian program developer and teacher in Newton, Massachusetts, where she also completed a MA Ed. Degree. She retired from Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill, Massachusetts after 32 years of ESL Teaching and Curriculum Development. A sabbatical took her to the Peruvian-North American Institute in Trujillo, Peru, where she served as Interim Academic Director, followed by summer teaching in China and two summers with the Harvard University Program. After assignments in Togo, Benin, and Djibouti, she is happily here in Vietnam with the English Language Specialist Program. She has always worked to make her classroom as student-centered and interactive as possible with an emphasis on Social and Emotional Learning.
Jane Thiefels
RELO Specialist, The United States
Assoc. Prof. Toni Dobinson
Curtin University, Australia
Toni Dobinson is an Associate Professor and Discipline Lead in the School of Education at Curtin University, Western Australia where she coordinates the Post Graduate Programmes in Applied Linguistics and TESOL as well as supervising HDR students. She is the winner of multiple teaching awards at faculty and university and national level including an Australian Award for University Teaching (AAUT) with a citation for culturally and linguistically inclusive approaches. She researches and publishes in language teacher education, language and identity, language and social justice, linguistic racism and translingual practices.
Paul Mercieca is a senior adjunct research fellow in the School of Education, where he has taught and researched in the areas of Applied Linguistics and TESOL. He has worked in the United Kingdom, Egypt, Oman and Vietnam. He was the Executive Editor of the English Australia (EA) Journal from 2010 to 2013. Paul has had many articles and conference papers published and his research interests lie in the areas of critical transcultural literacy and translanguaging. His 2013 book, To the Ends of the Earth: Northern Soul and Southern Nights in Western Australia, explores theories about identity and literacy.
Dr. Paul Mercieca
Curtin University, Australia
Dr. Pamela Humphreys
Macquarie University College, Australia
Dr Pamela Humphreys has worked in international education for over 30 years in Europe, Asia and Australia. Currently the Director at Macquarie University College in Sydney, Australia, she is also the Director of the Macquarie University EMI Centre, the first in the region to focus on the practice of English Medium Instruction. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Senior Fellow of IEAA. During her career, Pamela has held many roles including teacher, examiner, examiner trainer, teacher trainer, and academic manager. In 2021, Pamela was awarded the English Australia John Gallagher Bursary for her contribution to the English language sector in Australia. She publishes in the field of EMI, post-entry language enhancement, and language assessment, and was co-editor on the Springer title: EMI in Higher Education in Asia Pacific: From pedagogy to Practice.