Anne Burns

Anne Burns is a British-born Australian educational linguist, internationally known for her work on genre-based pedagogy in TESOL and EAP/ESP. She is a Professor Emerita in Language Education at Aston University (UK) and Professor of TESOL at the University of New South Wales (Australia). The TESOL International Association named her one of the '50 at 50', leaders who had made a significant contribution to TESOL in its first 50 years. Biography Burns was born and educated in Wales, UK. She received a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in English Literature from the University of Wales (1966); a PhD from Macquarie University (1994); and a Master of Education, also from Macquarie University (1996). She was formerly the associate director of the National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research (NCELTR), the Commonwealth Government's Key Research Centre for the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) (2000-2005), Director of the Applied Linguistics and Language in Education (ALLE) Research Centre, Macquarie University (2005–2010), and Dean of Linguistics and Psychology at Macquarie University (2000–2005). Currently, she holds named chair appointments and distinguished professor appointments at several academic institutions in the UK, Australia, and Hong Kong. She has also been a visiting professor in New Zealand, Sweden, Japan, and Thailand. Appointments include Academic Adviser for the Applied Linguistics Series, Oxford University Press (2012–present), chair of the TESOL Research Standing Committee (2009–2012), Chair and Editor for the AILA Applied Linguistics Series (AALS) (2014–2016) and Senior Consultant to National Geographic's Cengage. Contribution to linguistics Burns has published extensively in the field of TESOL on the teaching of speaking and grammar from a genre/Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) perspective. She is internationally known for her pioneering work in action research for language teachers, many of whom have focused on genre-based pedagogy in EAP/ESP.