I am currently a Professor at Curtin University School of Education, Perth, Australia.

My research interest lies in the interface between second language acquisition research, language pedagogy, and teacher education.

Areas of second language acquisition I am actively involved in are (1) order and sequence of L2 acquisition, (2) variability in learner language, (3) input and interaction in an L2, and (4) instructed second language learning.

The main areas of language pedagogy I am interested in are task-based language teaching and grammar teaching. I have worked in language teacher education for forty-five years in Zambia, United Kingdom, Japan, United States, New Zealand, China and now Australia.

My particular focus is on how teachers can create effective contexts for language acquisition in the talk that takes place in classrooms. Rod Ellis is a Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize-winning British linguist. He is currently a research professor in the School of Education, at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.

He is also a professor at Anaheim University, where he serves as the Vice president of academic affairs. Ellis is a visiting professor at Shanghai International Studies University as part of China’s Chang Jiang Scholars Program and an emeritus professor at the University of Auckland. He has also been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.