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Steven L. Thorne
Ph.D,
University of California, Berkeley, 1999
Assistant
Professor, Department of Applied Linguistics
Associate
Director, Center for Language Acquisition
The
Pennsylvania State University
305
Sparks, University Park, PA 16802
Email:
stevenlthorne at gmail dot com
Phone:
814.863.7036
Fax:
814.865.7944
Thanks
for visiting. I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Applied Linguistics
and affiliated faculty in Communication
Arts and Sciences.
I also serve as the associate director of the Center for Language
Acquisition and as a project co-director and advisor for mediated
learning at the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and
Research (a National Foreign Language Resource Center) at Penn State. I
received my M.A. (in Hindi and Urdu) and Ph.D. (in Education in
Language, Literacy, and Culture) from the University of California at
Berkeley. My research involves sociocultural approaches to human
development with a focus on
second, foreign, and bilingual language development and
Internet-mediated
communicative activity. Specific areas of interest include
interpenetrations between historically differentiated systems of
activity, the cultures-of-use of Internet communication tools,
multiplayer online gaming, intercultural communication, indigenous
language education, and work on
language theory that draws upon cultural-historical activity theory,
contextual traditions of language analysis, and
usage-based approaches to language development. Increasingly I am
thinking about the interface between life activity, learning, and
cognitive neuroscience. In a prior incarnation (pre-Penn State), I
taught Hindi and Urdu (at UC Berkeley and in Pakistan). Over the years
I've presented talks, workshops and seminars on a variety of
language-related topics including Internet communication and
information technologies, intercultural communication, Vygotskian and
cultural-historical activity theory, corpus linguistics, additional
language learning, and indigenous language revitalization. In addition
to academic pursuits, I have a few hobbies.
P
U B L I C A T I O N S
Books
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)
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)
Journal
Special Issues Edited
Thorne,
S. L., Piet, D., & Cornillie, F. (forthcoming in 2012). Digital
Games for Language Learning: Challenges and Opportunities. ReCALL
Journal (September 2012 issue).
Thorne, S. L., & Smith, B. (forthcoming in 2011). Second Language Acquisition Theories, Technologies, and Language Learning. CALICO Journal.
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., & Smith, B. (forthcoming in 2011). Second Language Acquisition Theories, Technologies, and Language Learning. CALICO Journal.
Thorne, S. L., & Payne, S. (eds.) (2005). Computer-mediated Communication and Foreign Language Learning: Context, Research and Practice. CALICO Journal 22/3.
Journal Articles & Peer Reviewed Proceedings [* denotes refereed publication]
*
Lu, X., Thorne, S. L., & Gamson, D. (submitted). Toward a Framework
for Computational Assessment of Linguistic Complexity of Grade-level
Reading Materials. Journal of Applied Linguistics.
* Thorne, S. L., Black, R. W., & Sykes, J. (accepted, forthcoming in 2009). Second Language Use, Socialization, and Learning in Internet Interest Communities and Online Games. Modern Language Journal, 93. PDF
* Thorne, S. L. (2009). 'Community', Semiotic Flows, and Mediated Contribution to Activity. Language Teaching, 42(1): 81-94. PDF
* Eslinger, P., Blair, C., Wang, J., Lipovsky, B., Realmuto, J., Baker, D., Thorne, S. L., Gamson, D., Zimmerman, E., Rohrer, L., Yang, Q. X. (2009). Developmental Shifts in fMRI Activations During Visuospatial Relational Reasoning. Brain and Cognition, 69(1): 1-10. PDF
* 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., Black, R. W., & Sykes, J. (accepted, forthcoming in 2009). Second Language Use, Socialization, and Learning in Internet Interest Communities and Online Games. Modern Language Journal, 93. PDF
* Thorne, S. L. (2009). 'Community', Semiotic Flows, and Mediated Contribution to Activity. Language Teaching, 42(1): 81-94. PDF
* Eslinger, P., Blair, C., Wang, J., Lipovsky, B., Realmuto, J., Baker, D., Thorne, S. L., Gamson, D., Zimmerman, E., Rohrer, L., Yang, Q. X. (2009). Developmental Shifts in fMRI Activations During Visuospatial Relational Reasoning. Brain and Cognition, 69(1): 1-10. PDF
* Thorne, S. L. & Reinhardt, J. (2008). “Bridging Activities,” New Media Literacies and Advanced Foreign Language Proficiency. CALICO Journal, 25(3): 558-572. PDF
Thorne,
S. L. (2008). New Media Language Use and “Bridging Activities”:
Implications for Plurilingual Life in a (Partially) Digital World.
Multi-Media Assisted Language
Learning, 11(1): 35-60.
Thorne,
S. L., & Black, R. (2007). Language and Literacy Development in
Computer-mediated Contexts and Communities. Annual Review of Applied
Linguistics, 27: 133-160. PDF
*
Thorne,
S. L. (2006). Pedagogical and Praxiological Lessons from
Internet-Mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education Research. In
J. A. Belz & S. L. Thorne (eds.), Internet-Mediated Intercultural
Foreign Language Education (pp. 2-30). Boston, MA: Heinle & Heinle.
PDF
(page proof -- see published article for final version)
Belz,
J. A., & Thorne, S. L. (2006). Introduction: Internet-Mediated
Intercultural Foreign Language Education and the Intercultural Speaker.
In J. A. Belz & S. L. Thorne (eds.), Internet-Mediated
Intercultural Foreign Language Education (pp. iix-xxv). Boston, MA:
Heinle & Heinle. PDF
(page proof -- see published article for final version)
*
Thorne,
S. L. (2005). Epistemology, Politics, and Ethics in Sociocultural
Theory. Modern Language Journal, 89: 393-409. PDF
*
Thorne,
S. L., & Payne, J. S. (2005). Evolutionary Trajectories,
Internet-mediated Expression, and Language Education. CALICO
Journal, 22(3): 371-397. PDF
(*selected by CALICO's Editorial Board as the outstanding article for
year 2004-05, Vol. 22)
Repinted
as: Thorne, S. L., & Payne, J. S. (2005). Evolutionary
Trajectories, Internet-mediated Expression, and Language Education. In
P. Hubbard (ed.) (2009). Computer Assisted Language Learning:
Critical Concepts in Linguistics, Volume 4. Abingdon: Routledge.
*
Blair,
C., Gamson, D., Thorne, S. L., & Baker, D. (2005). Rising Mean IQ:
Cognitive Demand of Mathematics Education, Population Exposure to
Formal Schooling, and the Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex.
Intelligence 33: 93-106. PDF
*
Thorne,
S. L. (2003). Artifacts and Cultures-of-Use in Intercultural
Communication. Language Learning & Technology 7(2): 38-67. PDF
Reprinted
as: Thorne, S. L. (2003). Artifacts and Cultures-of-Use in
Intercultural Communication. In P. Hubbard (ed.) (2009). Computer
Assisted Language Learning: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, Volume 3.
Abingdon: Routledge.
* Thorne, S. L. (2000). Beyond Bounded Activity Systems: Heterogeneous Cultures in Instructional Uses of Persistent Conversation. The proceedings of the Thirty-Third Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science. New York: IEEE Press. PDF
Chapters and Parts of Books [* denotes refereed publication]
* Thorne, S. L., & Tasker, T. (in
press). Sociocultural Theories and Applied Linguistics. In J.
Simpson (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics. New York:
Routledge.
* Thorne, S. L. (forthcoming). The ‘Intercultural Turn’ and Language Learning in the Crucible of New Media. In F. Helm & S. Guth (eds.), Telecollaboration 2.0 for Language and Intercultural Learning. Bern: Peter Lang.
* Thorne, S. L., & Black, R. W. (forthcoming). Identity and Interaction in Internet-Mediated Contexts. In C. Higgins (ed.), Negotiating the Self in a Second Language: Identity Formation and Cross-Cultural Adaptation in a Globalizing World. New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
* Sykes, J., Reinhardt, J., & Thorne, S. L. (forthcoming). Multiplayer Digital Games as Sites for Research and Practice. In F. Hult (ed.), Directions and Prospects for Educational Linguistics. New York: Springer.
* Thorne, S. L. (2008). Transcultural Communication in Open Internet Environments and Massively Multiplayer Online Games. In S. Magnan (ed.), Mediating Discourse Online (pp. 305-327). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. PDF (page proof -- see published article for final version)
*
Thorne,
S. L., Reinhardt, J., & Golombek, P. (2008). Mediation as
Objectification in the Development of Professional Discourse: A
Corpus-Informed Curricular Innovation. In J. Lantolf & M. Poehner
(eds.), Sociocultural Theory and the Teaching of Second Languages (pp.
256-284). London: Equinox. PDF
(large file)* Thorne, S. L. (forthcoming). The ‘Intercultural Turn’ and Language Learning in the Crucible of New Media. In F. Helm & S. Guth (eds.), Telecollaboration 2.0 for Language and Intercultural Learning. Bern: Peter Lang.
* Thorne, S. L., & Black, R. W. (forthcoming). Identity and Interaction in Internet-Mediated Contexts. In C. Higgins (ed.), Negotiating the Self in a Second Language: Identity Formation and Cross-Cultural Adaptation in a Globalizing World. New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
* Sykes, J., Reinhardt, J., & Thorne, S. L. (forthcoming). Multiplayer Digital Games as Sites for Research and Practice. In F. Hult (ed.), Directions and Prospects for Educational Linguistics. New York: Springer.
* Thorne, S. L. (2008). Transcultural Communication in Open Internet Environments and Massively Multiplayer Online Games. In S. Magnan (ed.), Mediating Discourse Online (pp. 305-327). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. PDF (page proof -- see published article for final version)
* 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)
* 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.
* Lantolf, J. P. & Thorne, S. L. (2007). Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Acquisition. In. B. van Patten & J. Williams (eds.), Explaining Second Language Acquisition (pp. 201-224). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. PDF
*
Thorne,
S. L. & Lantolf, J. P. (2007). A Linguistics of Communicative
Activity. In S. Makoni & A. Pennycook (eds.), Disinventing and
Reconstituting Languages (p. 170-195). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. PDF
(page proof -- see published article for final version)
Thorne, S. L. (2004). Cultural Historical Activity Theory and the Object of Innovation. In O. St. John, K. van Esch, & E. Schalkwijk (eds.), New Insights into Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (pp. 51-70). Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt.(Germany). PDF
Kramsch, C., & Thorne, S. L. (2002). Foreign Language Learning as Global Communicative Practice. In D. Block and D. Cameron (eds.), Globalization and Language Teaching (pp. 83-100). London: Routledge. Draft available on-line: http://language.la.psu.edu/~thorne/KramschThorne.html
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. (2000). Second Language Acquisition Theory and some Truth(s) about Relativity. In J. Lantolf (ed.), Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning (pp. 219-243). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Draft available on-line: http://language.la.psu.edu/~thorne/SLArelativity2000.html
Reviews,
Working Papers, and other Publications
Purushotma,
R., Thorne, S. L., & Wheatley, J. (2008). 10 Key Principles for
Designing Video Games for Foreign Language Learning. Paper produced for
the Open Language & Learning Games Project, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology Education Arcade, and funded by the William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation. Available
here.
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. (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., & Black. R. W. (2007). New Media Literacies, Online Gaming,
and Language Education. (CALPER Working Paper Series, No. 8). The
Pennsylvania State University: Center for Advanced Language Proficiency
Education and Research. PDF
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.
Thorne, S. L. (2006). New Technologies and Additional Language Learning. CALPER Working Paper Series No. 7. The Pennsylvania State University, Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research. PDF
Thorne, S. L. (2006). New Technologies and Additional Language Learning. CALPER Working Paper Series No. 7. The Pennsylvania State University, Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research. PDF
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. (2005). Internet-mediated Intercultural Foreign Language
Education: Approaches, Pedagogy, and Research. CALPER Working Paper
Series No. 6. The Pennsylvania State University, Center for Advanced
Language Proficiency Education and Research. PDF
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., & Payne, J. S. (2005). Internet-mediated Text and
Multi-modal Expression in Foreign Language Education. CALPER Working
Paper Series No. 5. The Pennsylvania State University, Center for
Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research. PDF
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.
Thorne,
S. L. (2003). Review of Language and the Internet (David Crystal): The
Biggest Language Revolution Ever Meets Applied Linguistics in the 21st
Century. Language Learning & Technology 7(2): 24-27. PDF
Thorne,
S. L. (1998). Relationality and its Discontents in SLA: Firth and
Wagner
and their Respondents. Berkeley Language Center Newsletter 13(2): 4-7. PDF
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.
G
R A N T S & R E S E A R C H
Title:
Piciryaramta Elicungcallra -- Teaching our Way of Life through our
Language (Yup'ik immersion language education)
Role: Investigator for research
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education, Alaska Native Education Program
Status: Awarded $1,700,000 over 3 years (2009-2012)
Project description: Integration of new media technologies and language pedagogy in Yup’ik immersion language education in western Alaska.
Title: Rereading Our Past: The Cognitive Demands of Reading and Reading Comprehension, 1890-2005
Role: Investigator for research
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education, Alaska Native Education Program
Status: Awarded $1,700,000 over 3 years (2009-2012)
Project description: Integration of new media technologies and language pedagogy in Yup’ik immersion language education in western Alaska.
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)
K
E Y N O T E & I N V I T E D P R E S E N T A T I O
N S
Keynote
Address: Title TBA. TESOL-Italy. Rome, Italy, November 20, 2010
(forthcoming).
Keynote Address: "Avoiding the worst game ever: Media and emergent semiospheres.” The CALICO (Computer-assisted Language Instruction Consortium) 27th Annual Conference, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, June 11, 2010 (forthcoming).
Keynote Address: “It’s the people, stupid!” Human Relationships and Social Media.” Second Annual Ohio University CALL (computer assisted language learning) Conference: 21st Century Technology in the Language Classroom, Athens, Ohio, April 9, 2010 (forthcoming).
Invited Plenary Speaker: “Language, Learning, and Mediated Social Practice.” Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 23, 2010.
Invited Address: “Use-value and Usage-based Approaches to Language in the Lifeworld.” University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, March 4, 2010.
Invited Address: “Gaming, Social Media, and Theories of Language, Learning, and Mediated Social Practice.” Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Language Learning, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, December 16, 2009.
Keynote Address: “Language Learning as Bricolage in New Media Environments.” Eurocall 2009 Conference, Valencia, Spain, September 9-12, 2009.
Keynote Address: “Culture, Technology, and Mediation.” Web as Culture: Ethnographic, Linguistic, and Didactic Perspectives, International Symposium, Justus Liebig University, Gießen, Germany, July 16-18, 2009.
Invited Panelist: “Web as Culture.” (with Michael Legutke (chair), Manfred Faßler, Henning Lobin, and Angelika Storrer). Web as Culture: Ethnographic, Linguistic, and Didactic Perspectives, International Symposium, Justus Liebig University, Gießen, Germany, July 16-18, 2009.
Invited Address: “Gaming through Theories of Language, Learning, and Mediated Social Practice.” Games + Learning + Society Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, June 11, 2009.
Invited Lansdowne Speaker: “Online Gaming and Internet Interest Communities in Language Learning.” The Humanities Holodeck Conference, University of Victoria, Canada, April 3, 2009.
Invited Lansdowne Public Lecture: “Computer-mediated Interaction and the New Frontiers of Language and Learning.” Sponsored by the Lansdowne Lecture Series, University of Victoria, Canada, April 2, 2009.
Invited Lecture: “Semiotic Flows, Bricolage, and Critical Language Awareness.” Texas Language Technology Center Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Texas, Austin, March 27, 2009.
Invited Lecture: “Second Language Use and Development in Technology-Mediated Environments.” Foreign Language Education Program, College of Education, University of Texas, Austin, March 5, 2009.
Invited Lecture: “Computer-mediated Interaction and the New Frontiers of Language Learning.” Duke University, February 20, 2009.
Invited Lecture: "Genre, Digital Vernaculars, and Critical Language Awareness." University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 24, 2008.
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: "Avoiding the worst game ever: Media and emergent semiospheres.” The CALICO (Computer-assisted Language Instruction Consortium) 27th Annual Conference, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, June 11, 2010 (forthcoming).
Keynote Address: “It’s the people, stupid!” Human Relationships and Social Media.” Second Annual Ohio University CALL (computer assisted language learning) Conference: 21st Century Technology in the Language Classroom, Athens, Ohio, April 9, 2010 (forthcoming).
Invited Plenary Speaker: “Language, Learning, and Mediated Social Practice.” Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 23, 2010.
Invited Address: “Use-value and Usage-based Approaches to Language in the Lifeworld.” University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, March 4, 2010.
Invited Address: “Gaming, Social Media, and Theories of Language, Learning, and Mediated Social Practice.” Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Language Learning, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, December 16, 2009.
Keynote Address: “Language Learning as Bricolage in New Media Environments.” Eurocall 2009 Conference, Valencia, Spain, September 9-12, 2009.
Keynote Address: “Culture, Technology, and Mediation.” Web as Culture: Ethnographic, Linguistic, and Didactic Perspectives, International Symposium, Justus Liebig University, Gießen, Germany, July 16-18, 2009.
Invited Panelist: “Web as Culture.” (with Michael Legutke (chair), Manfred Faßler, Henning Lobin, and Angelika Storrer). Web as Culture: Ethnographic, Linguistic, and Didactic Perspectives, International Symposium, Justus Liebig University, Gießen, Germany, July 16-18, 2009.
Invited Address: “Gaming through Theories of Language, Learning, and Mediated Social Practice.” Games + Learning + Society Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, June 11, 2009.
Invited Lansdowne Speaker: “Online Gaming and Internet Interest Communities in Language Learning.” The Humanities Holodeck Conference, University of Victoria, Canada, April 3, 2009.
Invited Lansdowne Public Lecture: “Computer-mediated Interaction and the New Frontiers of Language and Learning.” Sponsored by the Lansdowne Lecture Series, University of Victoria, Canada, April 2, 2009.
Invited Lecture: “Semiotic Flows, Bricolage, and Critical Language Awareness.” Texas Language Technology Center Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Texas, Austin, March 27, 2009.
Invited Lecture: “Second Language Use and Development in Technology-Mediated Environments.” Foreign Language Education Program, College of Education, University of Texas, Austin, March 5, 2009.
Invited Lecture: “Computer-mediated Interaction and the New Frontiers of Language Learning.” Duke University, February 20, 2009.
Invited Lecture: "Genre, Digital Vernaculars, and Critical Language Awareness." University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 24, 2008.
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, New Zealand, 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.
T
E A C H I N G @ Penn State
Seminar
in Language Use: Modern Linguistic History and Functional Traditions of
Language Use, Structure, and Development
* Fall, 2008
* Fall, 2006: http://www.personal.psu.edu/slt13/aplng597g/
Communication and the Internet
* Fall, 2004: http://language.la.psu.edu/aplng083s/
Sociocultural
Theory and Second Language Learning
* Fall, 2009: http://language.la.psu.edu/~thorne/aplng584_2009/
* Fall, 2007: http://language.la.psu.edu/~thorne/aplng584_2007/
* Fall, 2007: http://language.la.psu.edu/~thorne/aplng584_2007/
* Fall, 2005: http://language.la.psu.edu/aplng584/
* Spring, 2004: http://language.la.psu.edu/aplng597f/
Computer-Mediated
Communication (Communication Arts and Sciences 497B)
* Spring, 2003: http://language.la.psu.edu/cas497b
* Spring, 2001: http://language.la.psu.edu/spcom497b/
Language,
Communication, and Activity Theory (LALS 597A)
* Fall, 2002: http://language.la.psu.edu/aplng597a/
Technology,
Mediation, and Second Language Acquisition: Research and Praxis
(CMLIT/FR/GER/SPAN 589)
* Spring, 2010: http://language.la.psu.edu/~thorne/tifle2010
* Spring, 2009: http://language.la.psu.edu/~thorne/tifle2009
* Spring, 2008: http://language.la.psu.edu/~thorne/tifle2008
* Spring, 2007: http://www.personal.psu.edu/slt13/589_s2007/
* Spring, 2005: http://language.la.psu.edu/tifle2005
* Fall, 2003: http://language.la.psu.edu/tifle2003/
* Spring, 2002: http://language.la.psu.edu/tifle2002/
* Summer, 2002 (Penn State Summer Institute in Applied
Linguistics): http://language.la.psu.edu/aplng596d/
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