Multicultural Education Conference in Anaheim (MECA) 2020

From Thursday, August 27th to Saturday, August 29th, 2020, the Multicultural Education Conference in Anaheim (MECA) is holding a series of Online TESOL Seminars. Co-organized by Anaheim University, the theme of the presentations is “Adaptability in TESOL.” The following sessions will be at no charge and open to the public. Please note that all dates and times are California time. (PDT)

Thursday, August 27th
Dr. Jo Mynard: Supporting Language Learners Beyond the Classroom: Theory and Practice (4:00 – PM California time (PDT))
Dr. David Nunan: Theory, Research and Practice in Language Teaching and Learning (5:00 – 6:30 PM California time (PDT))

Friday, August 28th
Dr. Brian Tomlinson: Ways of Making Your Language Learning Materials More Effective for Your Learners (3:00 – 4:30 PM California time (PDT))
Dr. Ken Beatty: Education is Changing: Seven Good Things (4:30 – 6:00 PM California time (PDT))

Saturday, August 29th
Dr. Hayo Reinders: Learning Analytics (4:15 – 5:45 PM California time(PDT))
Dr. Rod Ellis: Addressing Problems in Task-Based Language Teaching (6:30 – 8:00 PM California time (PDT))
Multicultural Education Panel: “Multicultural Educators as Agents of Change in a Covid-19 World” (8:00 – 9:25 PM California time (PDT))
Moderator:
Dr. Shartriya Collier
Panelists:
Dr. Sandra McKay
Dr. Julie Choi
Dr. Tamara Myatt
Dr. Raphael Raphael
Dr. Vivian Bussinguer-Khavari

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Jo Mynard, Ph.D.
Anaheim University TESOL Professor
Learner Autonomy Specialist

Dr. Jo Mynard is a Professor in the Anaheim University Graduate School of Education, Professor in the English Department, Director of the Self-Access Learning Center (SALC), and Director of the Research Institute for Learner Autonomy Education (RILAE) at Kanda University of International Studies (KUIS) in Chiba, Japan. She completed her Ed.D. in TEFL from the University of Exeter, UK in 2003 and an M.Phil. in Applied Linguistics from Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland in 1997. She has lived in Japan since 2015, but has also worked in the United Arab Emirates, France, Spain, Germany, Australia, the USA and Ireland and has been involved in language education since 1993. She is the founding editor of SiSAL Journal (Studies in Self-Access Learning), has been a committee member of the IATEFL Learner Autonomy Special Interest Group since 2001, and is an executive officer for the International Association for the Psychology of Language Learning. Her professional interests are learner autonomy, advising in language learning, affect, and learning beyond the classroom/self-access. She has co-edited four books. Two on learner autonomy (2011; 2014), and two on advising in language learning (2012). She co-authored Reflective Dialogue (Research and Resources in Language Teaching)with Satoko Kato (Routledge, 2016) and Dynamics of a Social Language Learning Community: Beliefs, Membership and Identity (Multilingual Matters, 2020)

David Nunan, Ph.D.
Anaheim University MA in TESOL Designer, David Nunan TESOL Institute Director & Senior TESOL Professor
Former President of the TESOL International Association

David Nunan, Ph.DDr. David Nunan is former president of TESOL, the world’s largest language teaching organization and the world’s leading textbook series author. David Nunan is currently Director of the Anaheim University David Nunan TESOL Institute and Senior Professor of TESOL for the Anaheim University Graduate School of Education. He was the founding Dean of the Anaheim University Graduate School of Education and previously served as President of Anaheim University from 2006 to 2008 and as Vice-President for Academic Affairs from 2008 to 2013. Dr. Nunan is a world-renowned linguist and best-selling author of English Language Teaching textbooks for Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Thomson Learning. His ELT textbook series “Go For It” is the largest selling textbook series in the world with total sales exceeding 2.5 billion books. In 2000, David Nunan served as President of TESOL, the world’s largest language teaching association, and was the first person to serve as President from outside North America. David Nunan has been involved in the teaching of graduate programs for such prestigious institutions as the University of Hong Kong, Columbia University, the University of Hawaii, Monterey Institute for International Studies, and many more. In 2002 Dr. Nunan received a congressional citation from the United States House of Representatives for his services to English language education through his pioneering work in online education at Anaheim University. In 2003 he was ranked the 7th most influential Australian in Asia by Business Review Weekly, and in 2005 he was named one of the top “50 Australians who Matter”. David Nunan was invited by the Australian Prime Minister to attend a summit in Sydney Australia in December 1996 as one of the Leading 100 Global Australians.

Brian Tomlinson, Ph.D.
Anaheim University TESOL Professor
Materials Development for Language Learning Specialist

Dr. Brian Tomlinson is considered to be one of the world’s leading experts on materials development for language learning. In 1993 he established the world’s first MA dedicated to the study of materials development for language learning (at the University of Luton in the UK) and he founded MATSDA (the internationally renowned Materials Development Association). He has been Chair and then President of MATSDA ever since 1993 and, as such, he launched the journal Folio and ran (with Hitomi Masuhara) a number of materials writing workshops in the UK and in Botswana, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, the Seychelles, Singapore, Turkey and Vietnam. He has also organised and presented the opening plenary at thirty international MATSDA conferences. In addition he has given plenary presentations on materials development in over sixty countries. His many books on materials development are considered to be the leaders in the field. They include Materials Development in Language Teaching (Cambridge University Press: 1998, 2011), Developing Materials for Language Teaching (Continuum: 2003), English Language Learning Materials: A Critical Review (Continuum: 2008), Research for Materials Development in Language Learning – with Hitomi Masuhara (Continuum: 2010) and Applied Linguistics and Materials Development – with Hitomi Masuhara (Continuum: 2012). He has also just finished a state of the art survey of the literature on materials development published in the Cambridge University Press journal Language Teaching. Dr. Tomlinson has also published books on language teaching methodology (Teaching Secondary English – with Rod Ellis: Longman 1980), on language through literature (Openings: Penguin: 1994) and on language awareness (Discover English – with Rod Bolitho: Macmillan 1995), as well as contributing to textbooks for Bulgaria, for China, for Ethiopia, for Japan, for Malaysia, for Morocco, for Nigeria, for Turkey, for Namibia, for Singapore and for Zambia. He is currently a TESOL Professor at Anaheim University, Visiting Professor at Leeds Metropolitan University, and an Advisor for the British Council English Language Advisory Group.

Ken Beatty, Ph.D.
Anaheim University TESOL Professor
Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Specialist

Dr. Ken Beatty is an expert in the area of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Dr. Beatty is the author/co-author of more than 100 textbooks for Pearson, Longman, Oxford University Press, Thomson, Heinle & Heinle and Hong Kong Educational Press including English as a Second Language textbooks and readers from the primary through university levels. Although most of these focus on various aspects of English as a Second Language, he also writes and reviews on the topic of CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning). He is involved in electronic media and was Academic Advisor to Hong Kong’s Educational Television from 1998 to 2004. Dr. Beatty is a TESOL Professor at Anaheim University and has taught at universities in the UAE, the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong. He holds a PhD in Curriculum Studies from the University of Hong Kong.

Hayo Reinders, Ph.D.
Anaheim University Graduate Chair of Research & TESOL Specialist
Technology in Education & Learner Autonomy Specialist

Dr. Hayo Reinders is Chair of Research for the Anaheim University Graduate School of Education. Holding a Ph.D. in Language Teaching and Learning from the University of Auckland, Dr. Reinders is also Professor of Education and Head of Department at Unitec in Auckland, New Zealand. His previous positions include Head of Learner Development at Middlesex University in London, Director of the English Language Self Access Centre at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and associate professor at RELC in Singapore. He has worked with teachers from a large number of countries worldwide and has been visiting professor in Japan, Thailand, Mexico and the Netherlands. Dr. Reinders edits the journal ‘Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching’ as well as a book series on ‘New Language Learning and Teaching Environments’ for Palgrave Macmillan. He is Editor of Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, and Convenor of the AILA Research Network for CALL and the Learner. Dr. Reinders’ interests are in technology in education, learner autonomy, and out-of-class learning, and he is a speaker on these subjects for the Royal Society of New Zealand. His most recent books are on teacher autonomy, teaching methodologies, and second language acquisition.

Rod Ellis, Ph.D.
Anaheim University VP of Academic Affairs, Ed.D. in TESOL Program Designer & Sr. TESOL Professor
Second Language Acquisition Specialist

Dr. Rod Ellis is a world-renowned thought leader in the field of Second Language Acquisition. Prof. Ellis 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.

Shartriya Collier, Ed.D.
Nevada State College School of Education Associate Dean

Dr. Shartriya Collier is currently Associate Dean/Professor of the School of Education at Nevada State College. Prior to her current position, Dr. Collier-Stewart was Professor in the Department of Elementary Education at California State University, Northridge for 13 years where she instructed courses related to bilingual education, English language learners, family literacy, and multicultural education. With over 20 years of experience teaching in both K-12 settings and higher education, issues of equity and diversity have been consistent themes in her professional trajectory. She earned her B.A. in Spanish from Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Shartriya received her Master’s degree in Bilingual/Bicultural Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She completed her doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) at Temple University in Philadelphia. Dr. Collier has published widely.Recent articles have appeared in the Bilingual Research Journal, Teachers College Record, Multicultural Education, Journal for Multicultural Education, The Journal of Writing Teacher Education and the CITE Journal. Her co-authored edited volume: “Social Justice and Parent Partnerships in Multicultural Education Contexts” offers an array of cutting-edge research-based best practices for parents, administrators and families. She is also one of four authors of two additional books “, The Challenges of Health Care Disparities” and “Isms in Health Care Human Resources: A Concise Guide to Workplace Discrimination.” Dr. Collier is passionate about the recruitment and retention of teachers of color and using teaching as a tool for social justice. Her personal mantra “transform the world, one mind at a time”, guides her approach to teaching and leadership development in higher education.

Sandra McKay, Ph.D.
Anaheim University TESOL Professor

Dr. Sandra McKay is an Anaheim University TESOL Professor, Professor Emeritus of English at San Francisco State University and an affiliate faculty member in the Second Language Studies program at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. She received her doctorate from the college of education at the University of Minnesota in applied linguistics. Her main areas of work and research are second language teacher education, sociolinguistics (with a focus on English as an international English) and research methods. She has also published and presented on topics related to culture, diversity and inclusion. Her books include Teaching English as an International Language: Rethinking Goals and Approaches (2002, Oxford University Press) which was the Winner of the Ben Warren International Book Award for outstanding teacher education materials, Sociolinguistics and Language Education (edited with Nancy Hornberger, 2010, Multilingual Matters) and Researching Second Language Classrooms (2006, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates). Her newest book is Teaching and Assessing EIL in local contexts around the world (with J.D. Brown, 2016, Routledge). She has also published widely in international journals. She served as TESOL Quarterly editor from 1994 to 1999 and has served on the editorial advisory board for the Journal of Second Language Writing and the TESOL Quarterly. She has received four Fulbright grants, as well as many academic specialists awards and distinguished lecturer invitations. Her research interest in English as an international language developed from her Fulbright Grants, academic specialists awards and her extensive work in international teacher education in countries such as Chile, Hong Kong, Hungary, Latvia, Morocco, Japan, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea and Thailand.

Julie Choi, Ph.D.
Melbourne Graduate School of Education Senior Lecturer in Education (Additional Languages)

Dr. Julie Choi is a graduate Anaheim University online Masters in TESOL program. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in Education at the University of Technology, Sydney, and she is currently a Senior Lecturer in Education (Additional Languages) at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education in Australia. Dr. Choi has worked in the areas of adult English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching in China and Japan, and in professional Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) teacher development with tertiary-level students in Australia. Her research projects focus on translingual pedagogies and the language and literacy needs of refugee background women and youths in Australia. She is currently completing a project collaborating with community centre language teachers of adult migrant emergent literacy learners focusing on the affordances and limitations of digital and linguistic resources of pre and beginner level adult English language learners, as well as young women from refugee backgrounds in Metropolitan Melbourne. Julie is co-editor of the book Language and Culture: Reflective Narratives and the Emergence of Identity (2010); Plurilingualism in Teaching and Learning: Complexities across Contexts (2018); and sole author of the book Creating a Multivocal Self: Autoethnography as Method (2017). She has also contributed to Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Resourcefulness in English Language Classrooms: Emerging possibilities through plurilingualism (2017); How do ‘we’ know what ‘they’ need? Learning together through duoethnography and English language teaching to immigrant and refugee women (2018); and Perspectives Matter (2018), in which she reflects on the complexities of her own multilingual upbringing speaking Korean, Chinese, Japanese and English.

Tamara Myatt, Ph.D.
Anaheim University Akio Morita School of Business Professor

Holding a Ph.D. and Masters in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University, Tamara Myatt has spent more than a decade transforming the professional and educational lives of young and disadvantaged people in some of the poorest and most dangerous regions of the world, championing the causes of women, and orchestrating locally and globally scaled initiatives in the business sphere. The specialized focus of her Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Development was in in women’s entrepreneurship in regions of war. She is currently pursuing advanced studies/research in entrepreneurship in emerging economies, family business, innovation, and enterprise digital transformation. The former Executive Director of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women in Afghanistan and Chair of Entrepreneurship and Assistant Professor of Small and Medium Enterprises at the American University of Nigeria, Tamara is an internationally recognized pioneer in enterprise development. She has led enterprise development initiatives in nations such as Afghanistan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bosnia, Kenya, Croatia, Uganda, India, Myanmar, Liberia, and Rwanda. In her spirit of ‘giving back’ Tamara founded a critical mentorship program for Nigeria’s Chibok girls. Tapping into her passion for women’s causes, Tamara has developed the framework needed to support these women as they reorient themselves and navigate PTSD. Many of these women are now enrolled in universities in their homeland and abroad. As well, Tamara is lauded internationally as the founder of Afghanistan’s first-of-kind mentoring program for women entrepreneurs as well as the male support group for Afghan women in business. She has succeeded in establishing and edifying a robust support network for sustainable women-owned businesses, and many of her graduates have gone on to exceptional successes including participation in Barack Obama’s Entrepreneurship Summit and the Clinton Global Initiative, as well as recognition with Global Leadership Awards, Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women, and Time Magazine’s Most Influential People. For her work with women and enterprise development, Tamara received the Woman of Excellence Award for her home province of Nova Scotia, Canada, and commendation for her leadership in establishing the mentoring program for Nigeria’s Chibok girls. With a formidable background of experience including laying the groundwork for Saudi Arabia’s first university for women and the first entrepreneurship studies program for women in post conflict Rwanda and Afghanistan, as well as conflict-ridden Northeastern Nigeria, Tamara is well-prepared to begin tearing down the significant barriers impeding the economic advancement of young people. She embodies both the executive operational leadership qualities and fundamental teaching and instruction expertise to begin making meaningful changes while navigating cultural and social challenges. A proactive team builder, principled leader, and exceptional motivator, she is a superlative professional for senior academic leadership and instructional roles.

Raphael Raphael, Ph.D.
Anaheim University Akira Kurosawa School of Film Professor

Raphael Raphael (Ph.D., University of Oregon; MFA, Plymouth University; Master’s, Teachers College, Columbia University) is a film and media scholar who also lectures at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. His work frequently looks at making connections between genre, culture and disability. His most recent book, Transnational Horror Cinema: Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque (2017), with Sophia Siddique, looks at intersections of the horror genre, disability and trauma across borders. Other writing includes Transnational Stardom: International Celebrity in Film and Popular Culture (2013) with Russell Meeuf and contributions to the Encyclopedia of American Disability History. He currently serves as Associate Editor of Creative Works and Multimedia for the Review of Disability Studies. Raphael’s work on pedagogy also includes writing on teaching film and disability studies in Modern Language Association’s Teaching Film (2012) and social media learning in Let’s Get Social: The Educator’s Guide to Edmodo, with Ginger Carlson (2015). He has coordinated and directed educational technology programs with institutions in Asia, Europe and the United States. His scholarship in film, technology and media is also informed by his own practice as transmedia artist, and he has exhibited his work, including augmented reality and found footage installations as well as short films, in the United States and Europe. He is currently working on a book making connections between disability studies and film studies. Dr. Raphael tweets on issues in film and technology

Dr. Vivian Bussinguer-Khavari, Ph.D.
Anaheim University TESOL Professor

Dr. Vivian Bussinguer-Khavari is originally from Brasilia, Brazil. She was raised bilingually, acquiring both Portuguese and English simultaneously, while attending an international school from age 3 to 18. Upon high school completion, she was granted a full scholarship by the Japanese government, offered directly by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. She took up the challenge of studying in a brand-new environment and pursued higher education in Japan. After studying the Japanese language for one year at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, she was admitted into Kobe University, where she remained for both the undergraduate and graduate programs, completing her bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies, and eventually her master’s and doctoral degree in Applied Linguistics. From a very young age, she has experienced multicultural and multilingual settings and has built an interest and passion for both multiculturalism and multilingualism. She has conducted research in the field of Heritage Language Education (HLE), studying Nikkei-Brazilian immigrant families in Japan, investigating their school-aged children’s linguistic development in the L1 (Portuguese) and the L2 (Japanese), as well as the parents’ attitudes towards their children’s language learning. Other than HLE, her research interests include TESOL, intercultural communication, Performance-Assisted Learning (PAL), Performance in Education (PIE), and immigrant language education. She is an active member of the Japan Association for Language Teachers (JALT), having been the coordinator for their Speech, Drama and Debate (SD&D) Special Interest Group (SIG), now renamed to the Performance in Education (PIE) SIG, for four years and currently serving as their program chair. She continues to reside in Japan, where she has been teaching at the university level for the past decade, and is currently an associate professor at Kwansei Gakuin University as well as a lecturer at Kobe University.