Ken Beatty's latest textbook
Anaheim University Graduate School of Education TESOL Professor Dr. Ken Beatty's most recent textbook Learning English for Academic Purposes: Listening and Speaking, has been published by Pearson Canada.
Learning English for Academic Purposes features a cross-curricular approach to teaching students the skills they need to thrive in a real-life academic context, while helping them develop academic vocabulary in a range of disciplines and apply critical thinking skills to a variety of global issues. Written by renowned Canadian authors Dr. Ken Beatty and Julia Williams, this new edition of the successful EAP book for high-intermediate to advanced students is now available in two complementary strands: Listening and Speaking and Reading and Writing. The two books cover eight similar academic themes but from different perspectives. The chapters are built around warm-up and final assignments that have students progress toward greater autonomy, while challenging texts and tasks call for students to reflect critically on the learning content. As well as teaching language skills and emphasizing vocabulary development, LEAP equips students with all the necessary skills and strategies to thrive in the academic world in English.
Dr. Ken Beatty is an expert in the area of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Dr. Beatty is the author/co-author of more than 100 textbooks for Pearson, Longman, Oxford University Press, Thomson, Heinle & Heinle and Hong Kong Educational Press including English as a Second Language textbooks and readers from the primary through university levels. Although most of these focus on various aspects of English as a Second Language, he also writes and reviews on the topic of CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning). He is involved in electronic media and was Academic Advisor to Hong Kong's Educational Television from 1998 to 2004. Dr. Beatty taught the last 15 years at universities in the UAE, the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong. He holds a PhD in Curriculum Studies from the University of Hong Kong.
Anaheim University will hold a 4-day residential session for its Online Master of Arts (MA in TESOL) and Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in TESOL degree programs on the campus of California State University Fullerton in Orange County, California from Thursday, August 8 to Sunday, August 11th, 2013. The session will be held from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Thursday to Monday and from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm on Tuesday.
Further details regarding facilities and registration are to be announced.
MA TESOL students and faculty at 2011 residential session
Anaheim University President Dr. William Hartley
Most colleges and universities around the country reacted with strong words of concern to President Obama’s recent State of the Union address in which he announced he was putting colleges on notice and that colleges and universities have to do their part in order to keep costs down. However, one private university in Southern California praised President Obama for putting students first.
Anaheim University President William Hartley stated, “Over the past several decades, it has become a custom for U.S.-based universities to hit students with annual tuition increases, regardless of the state of the economy. This is irresponsible leadership. Just at a time when working adults of all ages need an education in order to remain competitive in a challenging job market, both private and public universities throughout the nation are pricing tuition out of their reach. The President was right in putting students first.”
According to a survey by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU), college tuition at non-profit, private colleges increased by 6% annually during the decade leading up to the economic downturn. Despite the nation’s economic woes, college tuition will again rise 4.6% in 2012.
Hartley stated “As President of Anaheim University, I would like to challenge presidents of accredited universities throughout the United States to follow Anaheim University’s commitment to decrease tuition by 50% by the year 2020.”
Joni Finney, National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education Vice-President, said, “Now is the time to think about doing business in unusual ways”. According to a Time Magazine article, Finney advocates for some lesser-used options for reducing costs, including cutting non-effective programs, using technology more effectively, streamlining curricula so students don’t graduate with more credits than they need, upping the number of hours faculty teach, making better use of evenings, weekends and summers, and offering three-year undergraduate degree programs to well-prepared students.
Anaheim University President Hartley has his own take on the matter, “It’s not about making temporary cutbacks. Being efficient doesn’t mean giving students less of what we used to give them in order to decrease costs. Efficiency is about being innovative in finding new ways to give the students more, while at the same time working towards reducing tuition. We have been able to reduce tuition, while improving the educational experience for the learner. Our goal is to make education accessible to students around the world, and through the use of state-of-the-art technologies and expert faculty, create an online face-to-face learning experience that surpasses the regional classroom experience to which we have become accustomed. As educators, we should look around at other fields such as science, technology, and medicine, and recognize the great advances that have been made in these fields over the past 100 years. Universities must strive to make the same level of advancement in our approach to higher education.”
The Presidents of Anaheim University and South Korea’s Dongduk Women’s Univeristy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding and are working towards a final agreement that will allow DWU TESOL students to study in AU's online Graduate Diploma in TESOL. Based in Seoul, DWU is South Korea's first private educational institute for women only and is one of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning in the country.
Read more: Anaheim to Partner with Korea’s Dongduk Women’s University
Anaheim University will hold a 4-day residential session for its Online Master of Arts (MA in TESOL) degree program in Orange County, California from Saturday, July 21st to Tuesday, July 24th, 2012. The session will be held from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Thursday to Monday and from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm on Tuesday.
In conjunction with the residential session, a graduation ceremony will be held on the evening of Saturday, July 21st for graduates of all programs, allowing graduates of Anaheim University's Business Administration, Sustainable Management and TESOL programs to attend.
Further details regarding the location of residential and graduation facilities are to be announced.
MA TESOL students and faculty at 2011 residential session