Robert Schwab is a professor with Busan University of Foreign Studies (BUFS) and has been affiliated with the Graduate School of TESOL since 2006.  Prior to joining the faculty at BUFS, he was associated with Hanyang University in Soul and several major American universities.  Robert Schwab currently lives in Busan, South Korea, with his wife and two children, and has lived and worked in Korea since 2001.

Dr. Schwab’s main areas of expertise are in second language acquisition, functional and mental grammars of English, practical application of classroom methodology in the EFL setting, and advanced teacher training.  He has authored numerous publications including trade articles, research articles, journal submissions, policy papers, and books including primary ESL resources, textbooks and novels.  His 2012 textbook ‘Explorations in Functional and Mental Grammar’(ISBN 978-89-8312-339-8  93740) is now in its third printing and has received major awards including the Noble Seal (2011), the Excellence in Academic Books Award (2011), and the Key Academic Resource award from Association of Korean University Presses (2012).