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Forty years of doing second language testing, curriculum, and research: So what?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2017

James Dean Brown
James Dean Brown*
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University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
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I started out as a budding English as a second language (ESL) teacher in 1976 at UCLA where I went through the M.A. TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) and Applied Linguistics Ph.D. programs. Sadly, those two programs were ‘disestablished’ in 2014, which provides a stark lesson to any departments that think they are hot stuff that nothing lasts forever. Nonetheless, my training in those programs provided me with an excellent start down three professional paths: second language testing, curriculum development, and research methods.

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Language Teaching , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , April 2017 , pp. 276 - 289
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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