Brian Strong

Brian Strong is an Assistant Professor in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Victoria University of Wellington and his M.A. in TESOL from the University of Birmingham. His research interests include examining incidental second language vocabulary acquisition through extensive reading and how to teach multiword expressions. He has over 20 years of experience teaching English as another language at institutions of higher education. Brian has worked as a curriculum coordinator at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan and as a Teaching Assistant in the English Language Institute at Victoria University of Wellington.