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Director, American Language Institute, San Diego State University

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Why I Give to TIRF

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G. Richard Tucker,
Paul Mellon University Professor of Applied Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University

H. Douglas Brown,
Director, American Language Institute, San Francisco State University

Diane Larsen-Freeman,
LSA Director, University of Michigan

Kathi Bailey,
Professor of Applied Linguistics, Monterey Institute of International Studies

Christopher Bernbrock,
Offerings Executive, IBM Global Public Sector Marketing

Michael McCarthy,
Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics, School of English Studies, University of Nottingham; Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Limerick

James Alatis,
Dean Emeritus, School of Languages and Linguistics; Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and Modern Greek, Georgetown University

Liying Cheng, Queen's University, and
Andy Curtis, Independent Consultant, International Education

Kensaku Yoshida,
Dean, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan

David Nunan,
President, Anaheim University