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)
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. (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]
* 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. (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. (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. (2008). Computer-Mediated Communication. In N. Hornberger, & N. Van Duesen-Scholl (eds.), Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Volume 4: Second and Foreign Language Education (p. 325-336). Springer/Kluwer. 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
In Progress
* 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.
Reviews, Working Papers, and other Publications
* 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.
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., & 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). 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, 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.
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.
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.
