Education
He has an Master of Arts in Linguistics from the University of Southern California which is also where he received his Doctor of Philosophy.in Linguistics.
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He is a native of Australia. From 2007-2013, he was chair of the Linguistics and English Language Department. During the 2013-2014 academic year, he was a visiting scholar at Kyung Hee University, Global Campus, Suweon, South of Korea.
Eggington has a Bachelor from Brigham Young University-Hawaii in English and Teaching English as a second language with secondary teaching credentials.
Prior to joining the Brigham Young University faculty in 1989, Eggington was on the faculty of the Northern Territory University in Australia. Much of Eggington"s early work focused on aboriginal culture and linguistics in Australia.
Eggington has been willing to speak his opinion on issues like the English Only Movement which has caused people in that movement to attack him. Eggington was a consultant on language issues at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics. and chaired TESOL"s 2005 Annual Convention at San Antonio.
Eggington is also a forensic linguist specializing in linguistic approaches to addressing legal matters such as non-native English speakers" interactions with the legal system, authorial attribution, trade name dilution, ambiguities in contract language, and matters involving language in hate crimes.
Membership
He served as an elected member of the board of directors of TESOL from 2003-2006.
