TEFL Interviews 27: JD Brown (Live at JALT 2016)

Welcome back to the TEFLology Podcast – A podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters.

Today we bring you the final of our three interviews conducted as part of our forum ‘Teacher Interviews: Stories of Transformation,’ at the JALT2016 conference in Nagoya.

In this episode, Matthew speaks to JD Brown. JD works at the University of Hawaii as a member of the influential Department of Second Language Studies. JD’s diverse research interests include language curriculum development, language testing, language testing in Japan, testing L2 pragmatics, performance testing, and mixed methods research; topics of which are discussed in this episode’s interview. JD was a plenary speaker at this year’s JALT conference, information about his presentation can be found here. More information about JD Brown, his publications, and his research can be found at his homepage.