Biography
Anne Burns is a Professor of TESOL at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia where she supervises doctoral students. She is also Professor Emerita at Aston University, Birmingham and an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney, and the Education University of Hong Kong. She has been a Visiting Professor at Unitec, New Zealand, the University of Stockholm, Sweden, Thammasat University, Thailand, the Institute of Education, Hong Kong, and Soka University, Japan.
She is the Academic Adviser (with Diane Larsen-Freeman) for the Applied Linguistics Series published by Oxford University Press, a Senior Consultant to National Geographic Learning, and Series Editor (with Jill Hadfield ) of the Routledge Research and Resources Series. In 2016, she was recognised as one of TESOL International’s ’50 at 50’ who have made a significant contribution to the field of English language teaching.
Anne’s research interests include action research, teaching speaking from a discourse/genre perspective, curriculum development, and language teacher education. Her book, Doing Action Research in the Language Classroom: A Guide for Practitioners (2010, Routledge), has been extensively used by English language teachers and teacher educators internationally. More recent publications include Teaching Speaking: A Holistic Approach (authored with Christine M. M. Goh, 2012, CUP), Second Language Assessment and Action Research (edited with Hanan Khalifa, 2018, CUP and Cambridge English), International Perspectives on Teaching the Four Skills in ELT (edited with Joseph Siegel, 2018, Palgrave Macmillan), and The Cambridge Guide to Learning English as a Second Language (edited with Jack C. Richards, 2018).
Keynote Presentation (2018) | Teacher tales: Context-embedded Language Teacher Professional Development
