Brock Brady Coordinator of TESOL Programs American University Phone: 202-885-1446 E-mail: bbrady@american.edu

Professor Brady teaches courses in Language Assessment, Teaching Pronunciation, Cultural Issues in the ESL/EFL Classroom, and Curriculum and Materials Development.  His research interests include cross-cultural discourse analysis, teaching pronunciation, language assessment, and distance learning. Currently, he is a member of the AU International Student Academic Support Committee. Brady has also been advisor to the Korean Writing Project, a faculty/student research group and the English Literacy Project, designed to provide English tutoring for custodial workers at AU. Currently he is Treasurer for the campus chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and he is a former member of AU Staff Council..

Brady is currently a Director on the Board of TESOL, Inc, and is a Federal Monitor of the Viriginia Department of Education's compliance to the national No Child Left Behind requirements. He served as a national evaluator for Fulbright English Teaching Assistant candidates from 2002-2004. From 2000 to 2003, Brady was Vice-President/President/Past President for the Washington Area TESOL (WATESOL) Association (and still serves as the WATESOL Listserv Coordinator). He received American University's Outstanding Staff Award in 2003. A frequent guest expert on teaching methodology on State Department Television broadcasts. Brady also gives regular briefings at the Foreign Service Institute's Overseas Briefing Center.

A former Fulbright Scholar and former Peace Corps Volunteer, Prof. Brady has taught in Korea, Paris, France and Togo, W. Africa and Panama. In the United States he directed short-term intensive ESL programs for several universities and taught community college ESL classes for refugees. From 1993 to 1997, he managed English Teaching Programs for the State Department at American Cultural Centers in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Cotonou, Benin.