Jo Mynard, Ph.D. Anaheim University TESOL Professor

Dr. Jo Mynard is a TESOL Professor at Anaheim University and an Associate Professor and Director of the Self-Access Learning Centre (SALC) at Kanda University of International Studies in Japan. She completed her Doctorate in Education (TEFL) at the University of Exeter, UK in 2003 and her M.Phil, in Applied Linguistics at Trinity College, Dublin in 1997. Before joining KUIS in 2008, she worked as an Associate Professor of English language at NUCB/Koryo College in Nagoya, as well as in Abu Dhabi at a high school and Zayed University (ZU). As a founding faculty member at ZU, she was involved in English language curriculum development and materials development and founded and coordinated the Learning Enhancement Centre (LEC) which was designed to support learners’ autonomous language study. Dr. Mynard has also taught English to foreign language learners in Spain, Ireland and England and has been involved in language education since 1993. She has conducted teacher workshops in Mexico, Thailand, Cambodia, Japan and the UAE. She has been the editor of SiSAL Journal (Studies in Self-Access Learning), on the editorial board of many international research journals, and a committee member of the IATEFL Learner Autonomy Special Interest Group. She has co-edited four books on learner autonomy and advising in language learning.