Dr. Betsy Gilliland
Associate Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
About this speaker
Betsy Gilliland is an associate professor in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa, in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, USA. She holds a PhD in Education from the University of California, Davis, and a Master’s in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages at the SIT Graduate Institute. Betsy got started in language teaching as a summer camp Russian langauge instructor and then taught English to future teachers at Bukhara State University in Uzbekistan. In her current work, she teaches courses in second language pedagogy, focused on second language writing and classroom research; she also leads a graduate-level study abroad teaching practicum to Thailand. Betsy blogs regularly for TESOL International on the subject of second language writing.
