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Chair 98-00

 George Braine (Ph.D., Texas) is an associate professor of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has also taught in Sri Lanka, Oman, and the United States. His publications include Non-Native Educators in English Language Teaching (1999) and Teaching English to the World (2005). He is a founding editor of Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education and coeditor of the Asian Journal of English Language Teaching. He was the first Chair of the NNEST Caucus. George was born and raised in Sri Lanka. His first language is Sinhala.
   

Chair 00-01

 Jun Liu is an assistant professor in the English Department at The University of Arizona, Tucson. He has taught English for more than 16 years in both China and the United States. He has published in TESOL Quarterly, TESOL Journal, Modern Language Journal, and Educational Research Quarterly. His major research interests include second language acquisition, classroom-oriented research, syllabus design and curriculum development, sociocultural and affective aspects of language learning and teaching, and ESL composition.
   

Chair 01-02

 Lía D. Kamhi-Stein (Ph.D. USC) was born and raised in Argentina. Her first language is Spanish. She is assistant professor in the TESOL MA program at California State Univeristy, Los Angeles, where she teaches courses in English for academic purposes; ESL/EFL, curriculum design; and methodology. She was an EFL teacher and teacher educator in Argentina. She has authored or coauthored chapters in edited books, and has published in Text, TESOL Journal, Advances in Physiology Education, CAELL Journal, College ESL, The Journal of Intensive English Studies.
   

Chair 02-03

Paul Kei Matsuda is Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at the University of New Hampshire. He has taught writing courses for both native and nonnative speakers of English as well as graduate courses for L1 and L2 writing teachers and researchers. With Tony Silva, he founded and chairs the Symposium on Second Language Writing, and edited On Second Language Writing (Erlbaum, 2001), Landmark Essays on ESL Writing (Erlbaum, 2001), Second Language Writing Research (Erlbaum 2005), The Politics of Second Language Writing (Parlor Press, 2006), and Second Language Writing in the Composition Classroom (Bedford/St. Martin's; NCTE, 2006). His articles appear in journals such as College Composition and Communication, College English, the Journal of Second Language Writing, and Written Communication. A native of Japan, Paul's first language is Japanese.

Check his site at http://matsuda.jslw.org/.
   

Chair 03-04

Masaki Oda, a native speaker of Japanese, has been a member of NNEST Caucus since its beginning. He has taught and trained teachers of both EFL/ESL and Japanese in the US and in Japan. He has a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Georgetown University. Currently, he is Associate Professor of applied linguistics at Tamagawa University in Tokyo, Japan. He has served as a member of International EFL initiative taskforce in TESOL (1993-1994), and the national public relations chair for Japan Association for Language Teaching (1992-1994).
   

Chair 04-05

Ahmar Mahboob teaches Linguistics at the University of Sydney. Before moving to Australia, he was an Assistant Professor at East Carolina University. In addition to linguistics/applied linguistics, Ahmar has taught English as an additional language in a number of countries including Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, South Korea, and the United States. He has worked in the areas of language policy development, pidgin and creole languages, NNEST studies, English language acquisition, English language teaching and teacher education, World Englishes, pragmatics, and issues surrounding minority languages in South Asia and has received a number of research grants including the prestigious TIRF Priority Grant. During his term as the Chair of the NNEST caucus, Ahmar established the ECU-NNEST Award for the best paper on NNEST issues.
   

Chair 05-06

 Lucie Moussu (http://www.moussu.net), originally from France and Switzerland, received a Master's degree in TESOL from Brigham Young University and a PhD from Purdue University, taught French and ESL in Utah for 7 years. She is now an assistant professor in Applied Linguistics at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, and she teaches Composition and Written Communication to graduate and undergraduate international students. Her research interests include the advantages of native and nonnative English-speaking ESL teachers and the administration of Intensive English Programs.
   

Chair 06-07

 Karen Newman grew up in Trinidad, Morocco, Germany, and California, and holds an M.A. in Germanic Studies and a Ph.D. in Language Education from Indiana University in Bloomington. Her teaching experiences include ESL, EFL, German, and a variety of teacher education courses for TESOL, foreign languages and reading. Karen is currently Assistant Professor of Foreign and Second Language Education at The Ohio State University in Columbus. Her research interests include nonnative English speaking teachers in K-12 and language teacher education.
   

Chair 07-08

Luciana C. de Oliveira (Ph.D., Education, University of California, Davis) is assistant professor of literacy and language education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at Purdue University. At CATESOL (California TESOL), she was the coordinator of the Nonnative Language Educators’ Issues interest group (2002-2004) and College/University Chair (2005-2006). Her research interests include issues related to academic literacy, second language writing development, and nonnative English-speaking professionals. Luciana was born and raised in Brazil.
   

Chair 08-09

 Katya Nemtchinova, originally from Russia, is an associate professor of TESOL and Russian in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Seattle Pacific University where she teacher Russian as well as methodology and linguistics courses in the MA TESOL program. She holds a Ph.D. in applied linguistics from SUNY at Stony Brook, New York. A member of NNEST Caucus since 2000, she has also served as a Webmaster for Teacher Education Interest Section and was a faculty sponsor for Graduate Student Forum in 2005-2007. Her research interests include technology in language learning, teacher education, and the issues of nonnative English speaking professionals in TESOL.
   

Chair Elect 08-09 and

TESOL President Elect 2010-11

 

 Brock Brady, is co-director of the TESOL Program at American University in Washington, DC. His research interests include cross-cultural discourse analysis, teaching pronunciation, professional association development, and distance learning. As a TESOL Board Member from 2005 to 2008, Brock was the association's representative to the United Nation's Non-Governmental Organization program and Chair of the Finance and Development Committees. A former Fulbright Scholar and former Peace Corps Volunteer, Prof. Brock has taught under and alongside NNEST peers in Korea, France, Spain, Panama, Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, and the U.S. He consults for the State Department on English language teaching in both South Africa and Angola. From 1993 to 1997, he managed English Teaching Programs for the State Department in Burkina Faso and Benin. His wife Kyongsook, is a nonnative English speaking teacher teaching second grade in Montgomery County Public Schools, in Maryland, USA.