Theodore S. Rodgers is an American applied linguist and Emeritus Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. His career spanned language teaching, curriculum design, and a long partnership with Jack Richards that produced the most widely used framework in the field for describing language teaching methods.
Rodgers is rarely discussed alone — which is itself a kind of achievement. Richards and Rodgers's three-level schema (approach, design, procedure) is taught to almost every new MA TESOL student as the skeleton on which the grammar-translation, audiolingual, communicative, and later approaches hang. His solo and later co-authored work extended this frame into curriculum and technology-mediated instruction.