Dr. Ken Kelch is a professor and program director of the TESOL programs.  He has worked at Alliant for over 25 years.  At Alliant, Dr. Kelch has been an instructor in and director of the ESL program. He has been a professor in the TESOL program for over 15 years and became the program director in 2014.  Dr. Kelch has published and given presentations on many areas of language teaching and learning, and he is the co-editor of a textbook on computer assisted language learning.  His areas of specialization are curriculum development, research methods, language program administration, and qualitative research.  Dr. Kelch enjoys supervising in-service and pre-service teachers, in particular guiding his doctoral candidates through the dissertation process.  He is fond of traveling and teaching in Asia, which he has done in Japan, Taiwan, Thailand,  Korea, and China.