REVISED MAT READING LIST
M.A.T. in Foreign languages Degree
Reading List, revised October, 2012
Area A: General Readings
Books
Brandl, K. (2008). Communicative Language Teaching in Action: Putting Principles to Work. Prentice
Hall.
Curtain, H. & Dahlberg, C. (2010). Languages and Children Making the Match: New Languages for
Young Learners, Grades K-8. 4th edition. Pearson Education.
Ducate, L. & Arnold, N. (2011) (Eds.). Present and Future Promises of CALL: From Theory and Research to
New Directions in Language Teaching. CALICO: St. Marcos, TX
Lee, J.F. (2000). Tasks and Communicating in Language Classrooms. Boston: McGraw Hill.
Lee, J.F., & VanPatten, B. (2003). Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen. New York:
McGraw-Hill. P53 .L437 Vol.1
Met, M. (1998). Critical Issues in Early Second Language Learning. Addison-Wesley Educational
Publishers.
Savignon, S. (1997). Communicative Competence: Theory and Classroom Practice (2nd edition). New
York: McGraw-Hill. PB36 .S27 1997a
Shrum, J.L., & Glisan, E.W. (2009). Teacher's Handbook: Contextualized Language Instruction. 4th
edition. Boston: Heinle & Heinle Publishers.
Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century. (1999). Lawrence, KS: Allen Press, Inc.
P57 .U5 S73 1999
The Keys to the Classroom. ACTFL Publication. Available: http://www.actfl.org [ under books and
publications]
Wong, H., & Wong, R. (2004). The First Days Of School: How To Be An Effective Teacher. Harry K.
Wong Publications.
Articles
Abbott, A., & Lear, D. (2010). “The Connections Goal Area in Spanish Community Service-Learning: Possibilities
and Limitations.” Foreign Language Annals, 43(2), 231-245.
Adair-Hauck, B. and Donato, R. (1994). Foreign Language Explanations within the Zone of Proximal
Development. Canadian Modern Language Review, 50, 532-557.
Adair-Hauck, B., Glisan, E. W., Koda, K., Swender, E. B., & Sandrock, P. (2006). The integrated
performance assessment (IPA): Connecting assessment to instruction and learning. Foreign
Language Annals, 39, 359-382.
Allen, L. (2004). Implementing a culture portfolio project within a constructivist paradigm. Foreign
Language Annals, 37(2), 232-239. PB1 .F57
Alley, D. (2005). A study of Spanish II high school students’ discourse during group work. Foreign
Language Annals, 38, 250-258. PB1 .F57
Brooks, F. B. Donato, R, & McGlone, V. (1997). When are They Going to Say “It” Right?
Understanding Learner Talk During Pair-Work Activity. Foreign Language Annals, 30 (4): 524537. PB1 .F57
Byrd, D. (2003). Practical Tips for Implementing Peer Editing Tasks in the Foreign Language Classroom. Foreign
Language Annals, 36 (3): 434-39.
Davis, R. L. (1997). Group Work is NOT Busy Work: Maximizing Success of Group Work in the L2
Classroom. Foreign Language Annals, 30 (2), 265-79. PB1 .F57
Durocher, D. (2007). Teaching sensitivity to cultural difference in the first-year foreign language
classroom. Foreign Language Annals, 40(1), 143-160. PB1 .F57
Guilloteaux, M. & Dörnyei, Z. (2008). Motivating language learners: A classroom-oriented investigation
of the effects of motivational strategies on student motivation. TESOL Quarterly, 42 (1), 55-77.
Kinginger, C. (2001). i+1 ≠ ZPD. Foreign Language Annals, 34 (5): 417-425. PB1 .F57
Knutson, E. (1997). Reading with a Purpose: Communicative Reading Tasks for the Foreign Language
Classroom. Foreign Language Annals, 30 (1): 49-57. PB1 .F57
Leung, C. (2007). Dynamic assessment: Assessment 'for' and 'as' teaching? Language Assessment
Quarterly, 4(3), 257-278.
Levy, M. (2007). Research and Technological Innovation in CALL. Innovation in Language Learning
and Teaching 1(1), 180-190.
Mackey, A. (2006). Feedback, noticing, and instructed second language learning. Applied Linguistics, 27,
405-430.
Mills, N. (2011). Situated Learning through Social Networking Communities: The Development of Joint
Enterprise, Mutual Engagement, and a Shared Repertoire. CALICO Journal, 28(2), pp1-24.
Muñoz, C. & Singleton, D. (2011). A critical review of age-related research on L2 ultimate attainment.
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Language Teaching, 44 (1), 1-35.
Pigada, M. & Schmitt, N. (2006). Vocabulary acquisition from extensive reading: A case study. Reading
In a Foreign Language, 18 (1), 1-28.
Poehner, M. E. (2007). Beyond the test: L2 dynamic assessment and the transcendence of mediated
learning. The Modern Language Journal, 91(3), 323-340.
Rifkin, B. (2003). Guidelines for foreign language lesson planning. Foreign Language Annals, 36(2) 167179. PB1 .F57
Schulz, R. (2007). The challenge of assessing cultural understanding in the context of foreign language
instruction. Foreign Language Annals, 40(1), 9-22. PB1 .F57
VanPatten, B. (1998). Perceptions of and Perspectives on the Term Communicative.
Hispania, 81(4), 925-932.
VanPatten, B. (2007). Input Processing in adult second language acquisition. In VanPatten, B. &
Williams, J. (Eds.). Theories in Second Language Acquisition. An Introduction (pp. 115-135).
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Wallinger, L.M. (2000). The Role of Homework in Foreign Language Learning. Foreign Language
Annals, 33(5), 483-496. PB1 .F57
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Area A: French specific readings
Gascoigne, C. (2012). Classroom Climate and student-to-student interaction in the post-secondary French
classroom. The French Review, 85(4). 717-729.
Knutson, E. (2006). Thinking in English, writing in French. The French Review, 80(1), 88-111.
Lomicka, L. (2009). An intercultural approach to teaching and learning French. The French Review,
82(6), 1227-1243.
Magnan, S. (2004). Young beur heroes: Helping students understand tensions of multicultural France. The
French Review, 77(5), 914-929.
Redmond, M.L., & Hoag, K. (2003). An imaginary adventure in Martinique for the elementary grades.
The French Review, 76(6), 1186-1201.
Vanbaelen, S. (2005). Stratégies pour l’enseignement du cinéma africain. The French Review, 78(3), 482492.
Area A: German specific readings
Ilett, D. (2009). Racial and ethnic diversity in secondary and postsecondary German textbooks. Die
Unterrichtspraxis, 42(1), 50-59.
Jackson, C. & O’Brien, M. (2011). The interaction between prosody and meaning in second language
speech production. Die Unterrichtspraxis, 44(1), 1-11.
Levine, G. (2006). Problematizing the teaching and learning of grammar in the intermediate German
classroom: A sociocultural approach. Die Unterrichtspraxis, 39(1-2), 1-13.
Putnam, M. (2006). Teaching controversial topics in contemporary German culture through hip-hop. Die
Unterrichtspraxis, 39(1-2), 69-79.
Sundquist, J. (2010). The long and short of it: The use of short films in the German classroom.
Die Unterrichtspraxis, 43(2), 123-132.
Steding, S. (2009). Machine translation in the German classroom: Detection, reaction, prevention.
Die Unterrichtspraxis, 42(2), 178-189.
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Area A: Spanish specific readings
Glisan, E. & Foltz, D., (1998). Assessing students' oral proficiency in an outcome-based curriculum:
Student performance and teacher intuitions. Modern Language Journal, 82 (1) 1998 p:1 -18.
Krashen, S. (2000). Bilingual education, the acquisition of English, and the retention and loss of Spanish.
In Roca, A. (Ed.). Research on Spanish in the United States: Linguistic Issues and Challenges.
Somerville: Cascadilla Press, pp. 432-444.
Leow, R. (2000). A study of the role of awareness in foreign language behavior: aware versus unaware
learners. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 22, 557-584. (PM)
Lubbers-Quesada, M. & Blackwell, S.E. (2009). The L2 acquisition of null and overt Spanish subject
pronouns: A pragmatic approach. In J. Collentine (Ed.), The 11th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium
(pp. 117 – 130). Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Ortega, L. (1995). The effect of planning in L2 Spanish oral narratives. University of Hawai'i Second
Language Teaching and Curriculum Center, 1-37 (http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/publications/RN15ortega.pdf)
VanPatten, B. (1990). The acquisition of clitic pronouns in Spanish: Two case studies. In B. VanPatten &
J.F. Lee (Eds.), Second Language Acquisition/Foreign Language Learning (pp. 118-139).
Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
VanPatten, B., & Cadierno, T. (1993). Explicit instruction and input processing. Studies in Second
Language Acquisition, 15(2), 225-243.
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