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Graham Crookes is Professor, and presently Chair, of the Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa. His specialties include the methodology of second language teaching and teacher development (including practice teaching supervision and more recently, philosophy of teaching). Besides teaching regular graduate and undergraduate courses for the Department of SLS, Dr. Crookes has conducted courses and workshops for teachers, especially on teaching methodology, action research, and critical pedagogy, in a variety of settings around the world, including Colombia, Denmark, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Singapore, and Vietnam. His main research interests at present are critical language pedagogy and language teachers developing philosophies of teaching. Dr. Crookes was born in England but has lived for the past 35 years in the Asia-Pacific area (Malaysia, Japan, and since 1982, Hawai'i).
His two most recent books are:
Values, Philosophies, and Beliefs in TESOL: Making a Statement