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Anaheim University is a nationally accredited for-profit university based in Anaheim, California. It was founded in 1996 as the Newport Asia Pacific University and the name was changed seven years later to Anaheim University.〔("Background" ), Anaheim University website (archived 2012)〕 The University is accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC), an educational accreditation agency founded in 1926 located in Washington, D.C. The DETC is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and the United States Department of Education as an accreditor of institutions of higher education. Anaheim University claims to be one of the first online universities in the United States to offer graduate degree programs entirely online. The University, is based in the City of Anaheim in Orange County, California USA. The University is made up of three graduate schools: the Graduate School of Education, the Akio Morita School of Business (named after Sony founder Akio Morita), and the Akira Kurosawa School of Film (named after Akira Kurosawa). 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). The university is best known for its online degree and certificate programs in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). ==Graduate School of Education== The Anaheim University Graduate School of Education is the first graduate school within the University and one of the first graduate schools in the United States to offer an online Master's degree program taught almost entirely online through real-time synchronous study. 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 its developer, British linguist Rod Ellis, an Oxford University Press Duke of Edinburgh Award-Winning author of the 824-page textbook The Study of Second Language Acquisition. Dr. Ellis is often referred to as the Father of Second Language Acquisition. The Dean of the Graduate School of Education and the Director of its Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in TESOL program is Dr. Hayo Reinders, a specialist in technology in education, learner autonomy, and out-of-class learning. The Director of the MA in TESOL Program is Dr. David Nunan, former President of TESOL, Inc. Dr. Nunan is author of a number of widely used academic textbooks.〔Anaheim University Names David Nunan Institute After World's Best Selling Author http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS180772+13-Jun-2008+MW20080613〕 Other notable professors include 2014-2015 President of TESOL Dr. Andy Curtis, former Presidents of TESOL Dr. Kathleen Bailey, Dr. Denise Murray, and Dr. MaryAnn Christison, CALL expert Dr. Ken Beatty, Dr. Martha Cummings of Columbia University, Materials Experts Brian Tomlinson and Dr. Fran Byrnes, and Sociolinguist Dr. Gary Barkhuizen. One of the founding TESOL Professors at Anaheim University Emeritus Dr. Ruth Wajnryb, an Australian linguist and Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press author, died in 2012. Within the Anaheim University Graduate School of Education is the (Anaheim University David Nunan TESOL Institute ), a division of the school offering certificate and undergraduate diploma programs in TESOL and Teaching English to Young Learners. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anaheim University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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