Date and Time: Wednesday, June 9 2010 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Venue: Anaheim University, Tokyo Learning Center Map
Address: Wesley Center
6-10-11 Minami Aoyama
Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062
Nearest station: Subway Omotesando Stn. (10 min. walk)
Fee: No charge

Registration: 40 people. First come, first served basis.
E-mail: info@anaheim.edu

To celebrate the opening of our brand new office in the Wesley Center just across from the former Anaheim University Akio Morita Learning Center, Anaheim University is proud to announce a seminar with distinguished linguist and TESOL Chair of Anaheim University's Graduate School of Education, Dr Rod Ellis. Dr. Ellis will be speaking on "Comprehension-Based Language Teaching" on Wednesday, June 9th from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm (Japan time). Join us to hear from the "Father of Second Language Acquisition" in Anaheim University's brand new-state-of-the-art-center. The event will also be broadcast live via Ustream.tv for those unable to attend in-person.

Attendance is no charge to participants however places are limited to 40 so please email info@anaheim.edu as soon as possible to guarantee your seat.

Speaker:

Dr Rod Ellis
"Comprehension-Based Language Teaching"



About Rod Ellis, Ph.D.
Chair, Graduate School of Education

Prof. Rod Ellis, is Chair of Anaheim University's Graduate School of Education Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) TESOL Department and TESOL Professor. Professor Ellis, a distinguished 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 served as the Director of the Institute of Language Teaching and Learning at the University of Auckland and has taught in numerous positions in England, Japan, the US, Zambia and New Zealand. Dr. Ellis, who is known as an expert in Second Language Acquisition, is author of the Oxford University Press Duke of Edinburgh Award-Winning Classic "The Study of Second Language Acquisition", as well as 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.