Donna Brinton

Donna M. Brinton is a private educational consultant. In the past, she has served as Senior Lecturer in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California (USC), where she designed and taught online classes in the MAT-TESOL program. Prior to that, she served as Professor of TESOL at Soka University of America and as Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Associate Director of the Center for World Languages at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She has taught a wide spectrum of Applied Linguistics and English as a second language classes. Donna is the co-author and co-editor of numerous professional texts including Content-Based Second Language Instruction (University of Michigan), The Content-Based Classroom (Longman), Teaching Pronunciation (Cambridge), New Ways in Content-Based Instruction (TESOL), New Ways in ESP (TESOL), Heritage Language Acquisition: A New Field Emerging (Routledge, Taylor, & Francis), The Structure of Modern English (John Benjamins), and the 4th edition of Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language (Cengage/National Geographic). She and her co-editor Marguerite Ann Snow have just completed the 2nd edition of The Content-Based Classroom (University of Michigan Press), which is due out for TESOL 2017. Donna has also co-authored several commercial English language textbooks and numerous journal and book articles and has done short-term international teacher training in Asia, Central Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and The Americas. Her fields of expertise are materials/curriculum development, program evaluation, general TESOL methodology, teaching pronunciation, content-based instruction, English for Specific Purposes, and the use of instructional technology in language teaching. Donna is a native of California and lives in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles.