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Nunan, David – TESOL Quarterly, 2002
Draws on experience developing a Web-based master's program in TESOL for Newport Asia Pacific University (NAPU), a relatively new virtual university based in Newport Beach, California that offers graduate programs in TESOL, teaching Japanese as a second language, intercultural communication, and business administration. Discusses the challenges…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education, English (Second Language)

Nunan, David – TESOL Quarterly, 1997
Argues for a view of teacher research that, regardless of its highly contextualized and particularistic foci, is consistent with and meets the evaluative standards that are applied to research in general. The article also maintains that teacher-research should be sensitive to ethical issues and serve to strengthen relationships between research…
Descriptors: Conferences, English (Second Language), Ethics, Models

Nunan, David – TESOL Quarterly, 1989
Describes the National Curriculum Project, an effort in curriculum renewal set up within the Australian Adult Migrant Education Program. The rationale for and the effectiveness of a collaborative approach between teachers and curriculum specialists in school-based English-as-a-Second-Language curriculum development are discussed. Project…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Educational Cooperation, English (Second Language)

Nunan, David – TESOL Quarterly, 1995
Explores the mismatch between pedagogical intentions and learner outcomes and argues for learner centeredness as a central (yet relative) concept. Ways in which the relationship between teachers and learners and teaching and learning can be strengthened, e.g., experiential content, language content, and learning process, are explored, and examples…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Activities, Cognitive Style, Course Content

Nunan, David; And Others – TESOL Quarterly, 1994
An author, David Nunan, responds to a previous article that criticizes his advocacy of task-based syllabuses. Another author, Michael Long, points out inaccuracies in the criticism, and the author of the criticism, Ron Sheen, defends his earlier claim. (45 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, English (Second Language), Language Research, Linguistic Input

Nunan, David – TESOL Quarterly, 1991
Reviews the conceptual, curricular, and empirical bases of task-based language teaching and suggests future trends, concluding that the conceptual and empirical bases need to be extended both substantively and methodologically. (38 references) (CB)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Trends, English (Second Language), Language Research

Bailey, Kathleen M.; Curtis, Andy; Nunan, David – TESOL Quarterly, 1998
Describes the experiences of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) university professors who investigated reflective teaching and professional development by practicing what they preached. Over one academic year they taught their EFL classes utilizing three professional development procedures (journal writing, videotaping, and teaching portfolios).…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Lewkowicz, Jo A.; Nunan, David – TESOL Quarterly, 1999
Describes the development of a collaborative evaluation model and its application to a curricular innovation project within a secondary school system in Hong Kong. Focuses on the limits of collaboration in long-term evaluation projects with multiple stakeholders. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Curriculum Evaluation, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods

Tucker, G. Richard; Lightbown, Patsy M.; Snow, Catherine; Christian, Donna; de Bot, Kees; Lynch, Brian K.; Nunan, David; Duff, Patricia A.; Freeman, Donald; Bailey, Kathleen M. – TESOL Quarterly, 2001
Highlights research priorities for the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) field, including the following: age of beginning instruction, learning to read in a second language, dual-language education for English language learners, language assessment and program evaluation, English as a global language, learning English for…
Descriptors: Age, Bilingual Education, English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes
Nunan, David – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2003
This article presents the results of an investigation into the place of English in the curriculum in several countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The study indicates that the emergence of English as a global language is having considerable impact on policies and practices in all countries surveyed. However, it also reveals significant problems,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Global Approach