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Social Sciences and Humanities
Australia
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
105
Citations
150775
World Ranking
63
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

Rod Ellis is affiliated with Curtin University in Australia and has made significant contributions to the fields of language teaching and second language acquisition. Their research spans multiple disciplines, including Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, and Psychology. Specifically, Ellis's work covers Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, and Linguistics and Language.

The topics frequently addressed in Ellis's research include:

  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Educational and Psychological Assessments
  • Writing and Handwriting Education

Recent published papers by Rod Ellis feature a range of topics within language education and pragmatics:

  • A short history of SLA: Where have we come from and where are we going? (2020), Language Teaching
  • Options in a task-based language-teaching curriculum (2021), TASK Journal on Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning
  • A study of Chinese learners' ability to comprehend irony (2020), Journal of Pragmatics
  • Task-based language teaching for beginner-level young learners (2020), Language Teaching for Young Learners

Ellis has collaborated extensively with other researchers in the field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Natsuko Shintani
  • Yan Zhu
  • Carsten Roever
  • Waruni Iresha Ekanayaka
  • Scott Aubrey

Publications by Ellis appear repeatedly in specialized venues focusing on language teaching and applied linguistics. These include:

  • Language Teaching for Young Learners (6 publications)
  • Language Teaching (2 publications)
  • Language Teaching Research (2 publications)
  • System (2 publications)
  • Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics (2 publications)

Rod Ellis's book publications have been released by publishers such as Multilingual Matters eBooks and Channel View Publications eBooks. The titles listed focus on measuring second language pragmatic competence, published in 2024.

Among professional recognitions, Ellis was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Second Language Acquisition, Teacher Education and Language Pedagogy.

    Rod Ellis

  • The study of second language acquisition

    Rod Ellis

  • Understanding second language acquisition

    Rod Ellis

  • Task-based Language Learning and Teaching

    Rod Ellis

  • The Study of Second Language Acquisition.: Rod Ellis

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  • Analysing Learner Language

    Rod Ellis;Gary Patrick Barkhuizen

  • Instructed second language acquisition : learning in the classroom

    Rod Ellis

  • Second language acquisition

    Rod Ellis

  • SLA Research and Language Teaching

    Rod Ellis

  • Current Issues in the Teaching of Grammar: An SLA Perspective

    Rod Ellis

  • Implicit and Explicit Corrective Feedback and the Acquisition of L2 Grammar.

    Roderick Ellis;Shawn Loewen;Rosemary Erlam

  • Measuring Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of a Second Language: A Psychometric Study.

    Rod Ellis

  • Introduction: Investigating Form‐Focused Instruction

    Rod Ellis

  • Classroom second language development : a study of classroom interaction and language acquisition

    Rod Ellis

  • Principles of instructed language learning

    Rod Ellis

  • Task-based language teaching: sorting out the misunderstandings

    Rod Ellis

  • A typology of written corrective feedback types

    Rod Ellis

  • The Effects of Pre‐Task Planning and On‐Line Planning on Fluency, Complexity and Accuracy in L2 Monologic Oral Production

    Fangyuan Yuan;Rod Ellis

  • The effects of focused and unfocused written corrective feedback in an English as a foreign language context

    Rod Ellis;Rod Ellis;Younghee Sheen;Mihoko Murakami;Hide Takashima

  • Task-based research and language pedagogy:

    Rod Ellis

  • Learning a second language through interaction

    Rod Ellis

Frequent Co-Authors

Shawn Loewen
Shawn Loewen Michigan State University
Peter Skehan
Peter Skehan Birkbeck, University of London
Jan H. Hulstijn
Jan H. Hulstijn University of Amsterdam
Gordon Wells
Gordon Wells University of California, Santa Cruz
Susan M. Gass
Susan M. Gass Michigan State University
Gary Barkhuizen
Gary Barkhuizen University of Auckland

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