Dr. David Ellis is Deputy Director of the National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) at the University of Maryland. He manages the functional units of the NFLC, including art & media production, instructional design, interactive media technologies, project management, quality assurance, second language acquisition, and web applications development. He is also program manager for the Analysis and Language Learning (ALL) contract, the NFLC’s federally-funded project to develop e-learning materials at high levels of proficiency in critical languages, as well as numerous other smaller projects.

Dr. Ellis joined the NFLC in 2006 after leaving the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA, where he was a faculty developer. He has over a decade of experience in foreign language teaching, training, and curriculum design. He also has several years’ experience in management and administration in academic, business, and military settings.

Dr. Ellis earned his BA in Economics & Mathematics from the US Military Academy at West Point, his MA in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Hawaii, and his PhD in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a focus on language assessment.