Lantolf, J., & Thorne, S. L. (2006). Sociocultural Theory and the Genesis of Second Language Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Belz, J. A., & Thorne, S. L. (eds.) (2006). Internet-Mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education. Boston, MA: Heinle & Heinle. (This volume serves as the 2005 annual journal of the AAUSC -- American Association of University Supervisors and Co-ordinators)

 

 

Thorne, S. L., & Payne, S. (eds.) (2005). Computer-mediated Communication and Foreign Language Learning: Context, Research and Practice. CALICO Journal 22/3.

 

Thorne, S. L. (forthcoming in 2009). 'Community', Semiotic Flows, and Mediated Contribution to Activity. Language Teaching, 42(1).

Eslinger, P., Blair, C., Wang, J., Lipovsky, B., Realmuto, J., Baker, D., Thorne, S. L., Gamson, D.,  Zimmerman, E., Rohrer, L., Yang, Q. X. (in press). Developmental Shifts in fMRI Activations During Visuospatial Relational Reasoning. Brain and Cognition.

Thorne, S. L. & Reinhardt, J. (2008). “Bridging Activities,” New Media Literacies and Advanced Foreign Language Proficiency. CALICO Journal, 25(3): 558-572. PDF

 

Sykes, J., Oskoz, A., & Thorne, S. L. (2008). Web 2.0, Synthetic Immersive Environments, and Mobile Resources for Language Education. CALICO Journal, 25(3): 528-546. PDF

 

 

Thorne, S. L. (2008). New Media Language Use and “Bridging Activities”: Implications for Plurilingual Life in a (Partially) Digital World. Journal of the Korea Association of Multi-Media Assisted Language Learning, 11(1): 35-60.

Thorne, S. L. (2008). Mediating Technologies and Second Language Learning. In Leu, D., Coiro, J., Lankshear, C., & Knobel, M. (eds.), Handbook of Research on New Literacies (pp. 417-449). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. PDF (page proof -- see published article for final version)

 

 

Thorne, S. L. (2007). Mediated Communication and Synthetic Immersion Environments as Contexts for Language Learning. Proceedings of the 2007 International KAMALL (Korea Association of Multimedia-Assisted Language Learning) – KSET (Korean Society for Educational Technology) Conference: Seoul, Korea.

 

 

 

Blair, C., Knipe, H., Cummings, E., Baker, D., Eslinger, P., Gamson, D., & Thorne, S. (2007). A Developmental Neuroscience Approach to the Study of School Readiness. In. R. Pianta, M. Cox, & K. Snow (Eds.), School Readiness, Early Learning, and the Transition to Kindergarten (pp. 149-174). Baltimore, MD: Brookes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thorne, S. L. (2008). Review of Educating for Advanced Foreign Language Capacities: Constructs, Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment (edited by Heidi Byrnes, Heather Weger-Guntharp, and Katherine A. Sprang). Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 30(2): 263-265.

 

 

 

Thorne, S. L. (2006). Review of Ken Beatty 2003: Teaching and Researching Computer-assisted Language Learning. Language Teaching Research 10(2): 233-236.

 

 

Thorne, S. L., & Payne, J. S. (2005). Introduction to the Special Issue on Computer-mediated Communication and Foreign Language Learning: Context, Research, and Practice. CALICO Journal 22(3): 369-370.

 

 

Thorne, S. L. (2004). Review of Developing Professional-LevelLanguage Proficiency (edited by Betty Lou Leaver and Boris Shekhtman). Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26: 627-629.

 

Blair, C., Gamson, D., Thorne, S. L., and Baker, D. (2003). Rising Mean IQ: Cognitive Demand of Mathematics Education for Young Children, Population Exposure to Formal Schooling, and the Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex. Working paper, Social Sciences Research Institute, Penn State University.

 

 

Lemke, J., Ochs, E., Candlin, C., van Lier, L, Thorne, S. L., Gebhard, M., Lantolf, J., Scollon, R. (in order of appearance) (2002). “Commentaries” (edited by E. Bodine and C. Kramsch). In C. Kramsch (ed.), Language Acquisition and Language Socialization: Ecological Perspectives (pp. 165-172). New York: Continuum.

 

Thorne, S. L., Candlin, C., Srikant, S., Rampton, B., Gebhard, M., Lemke, J., Lantolf, J., Kramsch, C., Weinberg, A., Larson-Freeman, D. (in order of appearance) (2002). “Commentaries” (edited by E. Bodine and C. Kramsch). In C. Kramsch (ed.), Language Acquisition and Language Socialization: Ecological Perspectives (pp. 228-234). New York: Continuum.

 

 

Thorne, S. L. (1996). Mud, Sweat and Fears (in the akhara): Practices and Prohobitions Among Indian Wrestlers. In Monograph, no 2. Berkeley: University of California Department of Martial Arts Publications.

 

 

Thorne, S. L. (in progress). ‘Community’ as mediated participation in activity. Language Teaching [to be submitted in May, 2008]
   
Thorne, S. L., Sykes, J., & Black. R. W. (in progress). Gaming and Language Learning. To be submitted to the Modern Language Journal. [Late summer, 2008]
   
Thorne, S. L., & Black, R. W. (in progress). Interaction and identity in new media contexts. In C. Higgins (ed.), Negotiating the self in a second language: Identity formation and cross-cultural adaptation in a globalizing world. [to be submitted late summer, 2008]
   
Steinbach, F., & Thorne, S. L. (in progress). The social life of private speech.
   
Baker, D., Thorne, S. L., Gamson, D., & Blair, C. (submitted). Cognition, Culture, and Institutions: Affinities within the Social Construction of Reality. Submitted to Sociological Theory.

 

 

Title: Rereading Our Past: The Cognitive Demands of Reading and Reading Comprehension, 1890-2005

Role: Investigator, grant co-author

Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation

Status: Awarded $467,000 over 3 years (2008-2011)

 

Title: National Foreign Language Resource Center, Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER)

Role: Advisor for Mediated Learning, Project Director, contributing grant author

Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education, Language Resource Centers (Title VI Award)

Status: Awarded $1,300,000 over 4 years (2006-2010)

 

Title: The Increasing Cognitive Demand of the American Mathematics Curriculum, 1890-2005

Role: Investigator

Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation

Status: Awarded $301,721 over 3 years (2005-2008)

 

Title: National Foreign Language Resource Center, Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER)

Role: Associate Director, grant co-author

Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education, Language Resource Centers (Title VI Award)

Status: Awarded $1,440,000 over 4 years (2002-2006)

 

Title: Identifying, Serving, and Studying Talented Middle Schoolers

Role: Investigator

Funding Agency: Children's Youth and Family Consortium, Pennsylvania State University

Status: Awarded $15,000

 

Title: The PSU Foreign Language Telecollaboration Project (scroll to middle of the page)

Role: Co-Principal Investigator; Primary grant author

Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education, International Research & Studies Program

Status: Awarded $409,809 over 4 years (2000-2004)

 

 

Keynote Address: “Plurilingual Life and New Media Literacies.” Mediating Multilingualism: Meanings and Modalities, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, June 2-5, 2008.

Invited Panelist: “Developments in the Study of Societal Multilingualism.” (with Jan Blommaert, Diane Mavers, Ben Rampton, and Crispin Thurlow). Mediating Multilingualism: Meanings and Modalities International Conference, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, June 2-5, 2008.

 

Keynote Address: “New Literacies and the 21st Century Language Learner.” 20th Annual Conference of the Central Association of Teachers of Japanese, University of Wisconsin at Madison, May 31, 2008.

 

Invited Lecture: “Power Genres and Vernacular Literacies.” Course Transformation Program at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 5, 2008.

 

Invited Lecture: "Sociocultural Theory and Alternative Research Paradigms." National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, Nov 26, 2007.

 

Invited Lecture: "Sociocultural Theory and Technology in Foreign Language Education." National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, Nov 26, 2007.

 

Keynote Address: "Interculturality and Activity in Internet-mediated Language Education." TEFL International Conference at National Taichung University: English Teaching in the Age of Globalization. Taichung, Taiwan, November 24, 2007.

 

Invited Lecture: "Activity in Internet-mediated Language Education." Massey University, Palmerston North, November 19, 2007.

 

Keynote Address: “Mediated Communication and Synthetic Immersion Environments as Contexts for Language Learning.” 2007 International KAMALL (Korea Association of Multimedia-Assisted Language Learning) – KSET (Korean Society for Educational Technology) Conference, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, November 10, 2007.

 

Keynote Address: “Second Language Learning as Participation in Knowledge Producing Communities.” Connecticut TESOL Conference, Central Connecticut State University, October 20, 2007.

 

Invited Lecture: “Internet-mediated Language Use, Bridging Activities, and L2 Learning.” University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2, 2007.

 

Invited Panelist: “Cultural-Historical Activity Theory and Educational Quality.” American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 10, 2007.

 

Invited Lecture: “Community as Mediated Participation in Activity.” National Standards and Instructional Strategies for Foreign Language Learning Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin-Madison Language Institute, Madison, Wisconsin, February 7, 2007.

 

Keynote Address: “Approaches to Developmental Changes in Language Use.” Assessment Tools for Measuring Proficiency Levels in Less Commonly Taught Languages Workshop, the Kevorkian Center, New York University, New York, February 2, 2007.

 

Invited Panelist. “McGraw Hill Teleconference on Computer-Assisted Language Learning.” Long Beach, California, October 22, 2006.

 

Invited Lecture. “Corpus Linguistics and Language Development: Research, Assessment, and Pedagogical Innovation.” (with Scott Payne). University of California, Berkeley, April 28, 2006.

 

Invited Lecture. “Corpus Linguistics and Language Development: Research, Assessment, and Pedagogical Innovation.” (with Scott Payne). University of California, Davis, April 26, 2006.

 

Invited Lecture. “Technologies and Language Learning: Projects, Principles, and Practices.” (with Scott Payne). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 4, 2005.

 

Keynote Address. “Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research.” (with James Lantolf). Inter-Agency Language Roundtable, Washington D.C., March 18, 2004.

 

Keynote Address. “Internet-Mediated Intercultural Learning: Accounts from France, Germany, Spain, and the US.” (with Julie Belz). European Studies and the Global Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Forum, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, March 28, 2003.

 

Invited Lecture. “Materiality, Ideality, and Discourse: Communication and Consciousness.” Special session, 9th Annual Meeting of the Sociocultural Theory Second Language Acquisition Research Group, Tallahassee, Florida, November 2, 2002.

 

Invited Lecture. “Language Research and Digital Methodologies.” Digital Language Research Laboratory, College of Education, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, October 21, 2002.

 

Keynote Address. “Mediated Language Education: People, Text, and Technology.” Penn TESOL East, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 1, 2001.

 

Invited Lecture. “Digital Pedagogy: Examples and Applications of Networked Computers for Communicative Foreign Language Use.” Goucher College, Towson, Maryland, December 15, 1997.

 

Invited Lecture. “Participatability and Internet-based Social Engagement.” Berkeley Language Center Colloquium Series, April 9, 1997.

 

Invited Lecture. “Social Theoretical Perspectives on Real-time Language Acquisition.”  The Berkeley MOO Conference, UC Berkeley, March 15, 1996.

 

 

Seminar in Language Use: Modern Linguistic History and Functional Traditions of Language Use, Structure, and Development

 

 

Communication and the Internet

 

 

Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning

 

 

Computer-Mediated Communication (Communication Arts and Sciences 497B)

 

 

Language, Communication, and Activity Theory (LALS 597A)

 

 

Technology, Mediation, and Second Language Acquisition: Research and Praxis (CMLIT/FR/GER/SPAN 589)

 

 

 

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