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Associate Professor Department of Second Language Studies Honolulu, HI 96822, USA |
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Please note I am not accepting any new students for the academic year of
2010-2011 because I will be on sabbatical, affiliated with the Freiburg Institute of Advanced
Studies at the University of Freiburg(fall 2010) and the Spanish and English Departments at the
University of Alicante (spring 2011).
Finalist of 2009 BAAL book prize (more information). Find
freely available materials (including chapter ppts) to teach with USLA here Welcome to my webpage! I joined
the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM) in
2004. I have been a dweller in four countries: Spain, where I was born and college educated and where I lived
until 1986; Germany, just for a
year in the early 1980s, where I went to study Latin and Ancient Greek at the
University of Munich; Greece,
where I became a teacher of Spanish and spent 7 years, all that time thinking
that this would be my country for the rest of my life; and the United States, my chosen place of
residence and work since 1993. It looks like I will be in the US for many
years to come, as I cannot think of a better academic environment for a
professor and researcher… but who knows! I hold a five-year degree in
Spanish Philology from the University of Cádiz (in southern Spain), and an
M.A. in English as a Second Language and a Ph.D. in Second Language
Acquisition, both from UHM. Between 1999 and 2004, before returning to Hawai‘i, I taught SLA and applied linguistics in the graduate
programs at Georgetown
University, Georgia State University, and Northern Arizona University. I have been invited to lecture in places like Brazil
(Salvador da Bahia), Canada (Toronto and Vancouver), China (Beijing), Germany
(Freiburg), Greece (Athens), Japan (Nagoya), Korea (Seoul), Mexico (Puebla),
New Zealand (Auckland), Spain (Murcia and Caceres), and the United Kingdom
(Lancaster). I was lucky to be supported in my early research with a Pre-Doctoral Mellon Fellowship in 1999 and a National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral
Fellowship in 2003. I was recipient with John Norris of the TESOL Distinguished Research award and the MLJ/ACTFL Paul Pimsleur award, both for our meta-analysis of instruction published
in Language Learning in 2000. |
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My main area of research is in
second language acquisition, and I have long-standing interests in second
language writing, foreign language education, and research methods in applied
linguistics. I teach graduate courses in these areas in the M.A. and Ph.D. programs
at SLS-UHM. My staple courses are Second Language Acquisition (every semester, pretty much!) and Second Language Writing (usually every fall); and each spring I offer a doctoral-level seminar,
alternating among three topics: Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis, CHILDES
and Learner Language, and Error Correction. Much of my time is devoted to
mentoring my students through their efforts to write for publication and to
reviewing for colleagues and journals. I am a member
of the editorial boards of Applied
Linguistics; The
Canadian Modern Language Review; The Journal of Second Language Writing; Language Learning & Technology; Language Teaching Research; The Modern Language Journal; and formerly of TESOL Quarterly. I have also served as Member-at-Large
for the American Association for Applied Linguistics (2005-2008) and have chaired the Steering Committee of
the newly formed AAAL Advocacy Action Group. I am the editor of the Language Learning Monograph Series. The first
volume under my editorship, and the sixth in the Series, is Discursive Practice in Language Learning and Teaching by Richard
Young (you can read the editor’s Foreword here). A new volume by Martha
Bigelow is underway for release in 2010. In
the coming months, I will take on a new role with Language Learning and become the editor of the journal, after the
present editor Robert DeKeyser finishes his term. |
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If you want to read some of my work, you can find it in
chapters in edited books with John Benjamins (e.g.),
Routledge (e.g.),
Multilingual Matters (e.g.), Wiley
(e.g.),
Cambridge University Press (e.g.), and so
on. Or you can read it in articles in various refereed journals, such as Annual
Review of Applied Linguistics (2005), Applied
Linguistics (2003, 2009), Language
Learning (2000, 2001), Language
Learning & Technology (1997), Language
Teaching Research (2008), The
Modern Language Journal (1998, 2005), Studies
in Second Language Acquisition (1999), or TESOL
Quarterly (2007). I have written three books so far. One is a
graduate-level introduction to my main field of research, SLA: Understanding Second Language Acquisition (2009, Hodder Arnold). The other two are co-edited
volumes, one with John Norris on Synthesizing Research on Language Learning and Teaching (2006, Benjamins) and the other with Heidi Byrnes on The Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2 Capacities (2008, Routledge). Currently, I am busy putting the
final touches on a six-volume anthology of SLA readings to appear in the Critical Concepts in Linguistics Routledge series. Another project that keeps me busy is the Wiley Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics,
where I am area editor for “Language Learning and Teaching” under the
direction of general editor Carol Chapelle (it is scheduled to appear in 2011). Selected presentations in 2009: |
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Craig
Chaudron & Charlie
Sato, In Memoriam