TESOL International Association, a professional organization for teachers of English as a second or foreign language
Degrees awarded by the Department of Education are Master of Arts in Education (M.A.) with emphases in Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Administration, Instructional Technology, Leadership, Library Administration, Religious Education, and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL; Master of Arts (M.A.) in Teaching, Education Specialist (EdS), and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Education, with emphases in Curriculum & Instruction and Educational Administration.
Ahmar has made a significant contribution to the Non-native English Speakers in TESOL (NNEST) movement.
It also contains three institutes: the David Nunan TESOL Institute (established to honor David Nunan), the Carland Entrepreneurship Institute and the Kisho Kurokawa Green Institute (conceived by architect Kisho Kurokawa).
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Its Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), Master of Arts and Graduate Diploma programs in TESOL are taught by twelve world-acclaimed authors and linguists including the Dean of the Graduate School of Education Dr. David Nunan, former President of TESOL, Inc.
They publish research in Children's Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, Creative Writing, English Education and Pedagogy, Linguistics/TESOL, Literary and Cultural Studies, Publishing, and Technical Writing.