Professor Anne Burns is currently Professor in Language Education at Aston University, Birmingham, and Professor of TESOL at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney and an Honorary Associate at Macquarie University. Her research interests include language teacher education, language teacher cognition, applications of genre theory to language teaching, curriculum development and change, literacy, and written and spoken discourse analysis. She is well known for her work in the theory and practice of action research.