Professor David Nunan

Director of the English Centre and
 Chair Professor of Applied Linguistics
University of Hong Kong

The following synopsis is from Professor Nunan's website:

I am Chair Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of the English Centre at the University of Hong Kong.  Prior to this, I was Director of Research and Development, NCELTR, and Coordinator of Postgraduate Programs in Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.  I have published over 100 books and articles in the areas of curriculum and materials development, classroom-based research, and discourse analysis.  My recent publications include Introducing Discourse Analysis (Penguin Books), The Self-Directed Teacher (Cambridge University Press), Voices from the Language Classroom (with Kathleen M. Bailey) (Cambridge University Press), The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (with R. Carter) (Cambridge University Press) and  Pursuing Professional Development: The Self as Source (with K. Bailey and A. Curtis) (Heinle & Heinle).  My textbook projects include ATLAS, Go For It, Listen In, Speak Out and Expressions, all published by Heinle & Heinle/Thomson Learning.  Go For It has recently been selected and adapted by People’s Education Press as a basal textbook series for middle schools in China.  I was President of TESOL 1999-2000.