Dr. Ken Kelch is a professor and program director of the TESOL programs. He has worked at 樱花视频 for over 25 years. At 樱花视频, Dr. Kelch has been an instructor in and director of the ESL program. He has been a professor in the TESOL program for over 15 years and became the program director in 2014. Dr. Kelch has published and given presentations on many areas of language teaching and learning, and he is the co-editor of a textbook on computer assisted language learning. His areas of specialization are curriculum development, research methods, language program administration, and qualitative research. Dr. Kelch enjoys supervising in-service and pre-service teachers, in particular guiding his doctoral candidates through the dissertation process. He is fond of traveling and teaching in Asia, which he has done in Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Korea, and China.
- TESOL teacher education
- Curriculum development
- Research design
- Qualitative research.
- 樱花视频, Doctor of Education, TESOL.
- Dissertation title: 鈥淎rticulating Teacher Belief Systems in an Intensive English Program: A Case Study鈥
- Dissertation title: 鈥淎rticulating Teacher Belief Systems in an Intensive English Program: A Case Study鈥
- Research in Second Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics
- Language Program Administration
- Design, Development, and Evaluation of Second Language Programs
- TESOL Field Project
- Qualitative Research Methods
- 鈥淐ase Studies for Teacher Education and Professional Development,鈥 Hawaii International Conference on Education, 2022.
- Kelch, K., Byun, J.S., Cervantes, S., & Safavi, S., eds. (2021). CALL Theory Applications for Online TESOL Education. IGI Global.
- 鈥淭eacher Study Groups as Professional Development,鈥 CATESOL conference, 2020.
- 鈥淭eaching in the Linguistically Diverse K-8 Classroom, Part II,鈥 workshop co-presenter for the San Diego and Imperial Counties Catholic Diocese, 2019.
- 鈥淪yllabus Design in English Language Teaching,鈥 invited co-presenter, 21st Century Creative Teaching in English Language Conference, Mingdao University, Taiwan, 2017.
- Kelch, K. & Malupa-Kim, M. (2014). 鈥淚mplementing Case Studies in Language Teacher Education and Professional Development,鈥 ORTESOL Journal.