Rod Ellis is a Distinguished Research Professor at Curtin University (Perth, Australia) and also, an Emeritus Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland (New Zealand). He has also worked in universities in UK, Japan, and the USA and is a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has published widely in the related fields of second language acquisition research and task-based language teaching. He has won the British Association of Applied Linguists prize (1985), the Mildenberger prize (1987), The Duke of Edinburgh prize (1994), and the International Association of Task-based Teaching prize (2021). His current H-index on Google Scholar is 109.

罗德·埃利斯 (Rod Ellis)是科廷大学（澳大利亚珀斯）的杰出研究教授，也是奥克兰大学（新西兰）的名誉杰出教授。他还曾在英国、日本和美国的大学工作过，并且是新西兰皇家学会的会员。他在第二语言习得研究和任务型语言教学相关领域发表了大量文章。他曾获得英国应用语言学家协会奖（1985年）、米尔登伯格奖（1987年）、爱丁堡公爵奖（1994年）和国际任务型教学协会奖（2021年）。他目前在 Google Scholar 上的 H 指数为 109。