Resources

In this section, I'll provide resources to you so that you can expand your knowledge in the research, studies, theories, approaches, strategies and everything that can help you grow as a language teacher and as a language learner.

Books

These books are part of my personal library. I have read every single one of these books, and I am confident that they can teach you something valuable about how we learn languages from the studies and research in the field of Second Language Acquisition.

How Languages Are Learned
by Patsy Lightbown and Nina Spada

While We're On the Topic: BVP on Language, Aquisition, and Classroom Practice
By Bill VanPatten

Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course
by Susan M. Gass & Larry Selinker

Understanding Second Language Acquisition
by Lourdes Ortega

Understanding Second Language Acquisition
by Rod Ellis

Second Language Acquisition
by Rod Ellis

Key Topics in Second Language Acquisition
by Vivian Cook and David Singleton

Key Terms in Second Language Acquisition
by Bill VanPatten and Alessandro G. Benati

Second Language Learning Theories
by Rosamond Mitchell and Florence Myles

Principles of Language Learning and Teaching
By H. Douglas Brown

Introducing Second Language Acquisition
by Muriel Saville-Troike and Karen Barto

Second Language Acquisition Myths: Applying Second Language Research to Classroom Teaching
by Steven Brown

Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical Introduction To Real World Applications
by Alessandro G. Benati and Tanja Angelovska

Introduction to Instructed Second Language Acquisition
by Shawn Loewen

Spanish Second Language Acquisition: State of the Science
Edited by Rafael Salaberry and Barbara A. Lafford

New Perspectives in Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms
Edited by Eli Hinkel and Sandra Fotos

Teaching Grammar in Second Language Classrooms
by Hossein Nassaji and Sandra Fotos

Teaching English Grammar to Speakers of Other Languages
Edited by Eli Hinkel

Teaching Language: From Grammar to Grammaring
by Diane Larsen-Freeman

Teaching English as a Second of Foreign Language
Edited by Marianne Celce-Murcia

Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen
by Bill VanPatten and James F. Lee.

Second Language Teaching and Learning
by David Nunan

How Vocabulary is Learned
by Stuart Webb and Paul Nation

Vocabulary in Language Teaching
by Joe Barcroft

Vocabulary Learning Strategies and Foreign Language Acquisition
By ViÅnja PaviÄiÄ TakaÄ

Communication and Skill
By Bill VanPatten

Interactive Tasks
By Michael J. Leeser and Justin P. White

Focusing on Form on Language Instruction
By Wynne Wong and Daphnée Simard

The Multilingual Subject
By Claire Kramsch

Articles

Here are the titles of some articles I have read. These articles are good articles that I recommend reading.

Principles of Instructed Second Language Acquisition
By Rod Ellis

(If there is an article that you should read, it is this article. Professor Rod Ellis has been one of the most important scholars in the field of SLA, and this article summarizes what learning for acquisition should take into account).

Click here to see the article (This link opens a separate window and takes you to an external website).

Los métodos de enseñanza de lenguas y las teorías de aprendizaje
By Francisco Luis Hernández Reinoso

Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition: A Lexical Input Processing Approach
By Joe Barcroft

Conversation Analysis and Input-Interaction
By Susan Gass

Conversation Analysis and Language Learning
By Paul Seedhouse

The Key Is in the Keyword: L2 Vocabulary Learning Methods With Beginning Learners of Spanish
By Nuria Sagarra & Matthew Alba

Problems in Output and the Cognitive Processes They Generate: A Step Towards Second Language Learning
By Merrill Swain and Sharon Lapkin

The Evidence is IN: Drills are OUT
By Wynne Wong and Bill VanPatten

Frameworks for Comprehending Discourse
By Richard C. Anderson, Ralph E. Reynolds, Diane L. Schallert and Ernest T. Goetz

Current Developments in Research on the Teaching of Grammar
By Hossein Nassaji and Sandra Fotos

Processing Instruction: An Input Based Approach for Teaching Grammar
By Madhu Neupane

Processing Instruction and Second Language Grammar Acquisition
By Wai Man Adrienne Lew

Corrective Feedback in Second Language Acquisition
By Mounira El Tatawy

Textual Enhancement of Input: Issues and Possibilities
By Zhaohong Han, Eun Sung Park and Charles Combs

Integrating Task-Based Teaching Approach Into Grammar Teaching
By ZHU Xiao-zhen

The Task-Based Approach: Some Questions and Suggestions
By William Littlewood

Teaching Vocabulary Expeditiously: Three Keys to Improving Vocabulary Instruction
By Thomas B. Smith

Grammar Pedagogy in Second and Foreign Language Teaching
By Marianne Celce-Murcia

Current Issues in the Teaching of Grammar: An SLA Perspective
By Rod Ellis

Investigating Grammatical Difficulty in Second Language Learning: Implications for Second Language Acquisition Research and Language Testing
By Rod Ellis

Integrating Grammar Instruction and Communicative Language Use through Grammar Consciousness-Raising Tasks
By Sandra S. Fotos

New Trends in Grammar Teaching: Issues and Applications: An interview with Prof. Diane Larsen-Freeman
By Ma. Carmen Pérez-Llantada

Explicit Grammar Rules and L2 Acquisition
By Pawet Scheffler & Marcin Cinciata

Processing Instruction: An Update
By Bill VanPatten

Communicative language teaching in EFL contexts: Learner attitudes and perceptions
Sandra J. Savignon and Chaochang Wang

Websites

Foreign Language Teaching Methods

This is a website held at the University of Texas at Austin, and it offers 12 different modules on language teaching and each module is presented by a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. It is intended to help language teachers become more knowledgeable in these 12 mqodules which include: Speaking, Writing, Reading, Listening, Vocabulary, Grammar, Pragmatics, Culture, The Language Learner, Classroom Management, Technology and Assessment.

Video Assistance for Undestanding Language Teaching Techniques (VAULT)

"VAULTT is a collection of original videos highlighting various aspects of language teaching in the classroom. Each short video is accompanied by supplementary information (in a PDF) explaining the techniques and relating them to best practices in language teaching. Some of these videos are real classes, and some are staged.

Although these materials are based on current research in second language acquisition, they are produced at a level accessible for teachers with little or no pedagogical training."

-Text from the VAULT home page

Teaching Foreing Languages K-12: A Library of Classroom Practices

"Teaching Foreign Languages K - 12 is a video library illustrating effective instruction and assessment strategies for teaching foreign languages. The language classrooms shown in this library include Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Latin, Russian, and Spanish. All classroom videos are subtitled in English and are appropriate for K - 12 teachers of any foreign language."

-Text from TFLK-12 home page.

Professor Stephen Krashen Website

Professor Stephen Krashen has been a central figure in the field of second language acquisition. His late 1970's Monitor Model not only influenced the direction of the research and studies in the field and the efforts to understand how we learn languages, but it also sparked debate and research in many directions in the field. Today, professor Krashen is trying to create spaces where teachers can read about how we learn languages so that they can become informed teachers. Today, it is expensive to read current articles or books in SLA and professor Krashen is trying to create a platform where teachers can find free articles and information about second language acquisition.

Videos

Presentation by Professor Diane Larsen-Freeman (YouTube)

In this presentation at the New School in New York, professor Larsen-Freeman discusses the notion and the role of methods and approaches in L2 teaching and learning and what they represent in the teaching of another language.

Presentation by Professor Bill VanPatten (YouTube)

This presentation is titled, "Why Languages Can't Be "Taught,"" and he explains why languages can't be explicitly taught and explicitly learned if the goal is to help learner acquire another language. Professor Bill VanPatten has been an important scholar, researcher, and professor of Spanish, and his research has contributed greatly to our understanding of SLA and the implications for teaching.

Presentation by Professor Bill VanPatten (YouTube)

This presentation is titled, "What Everyone Should Know about Second Language Acquisition" and professor VanPatten cover six major points that he considers important for teachers to understand about SLA so that they can be informed language instructors. Professor Bill VanPatten has been an important scholar, researcher, and professor of Spanish and his research has contributed greatly to our understanding of SLA and the implications for teaching.

Note: There are six parts of this presentation.

Presentation by Professor David Birdsong (YouTube)

Professor David Birdsong gives a very interesting,fascinationg, and detailed presentation regarding critical periods for learning a language. He discusses what a critical period in language acquisition is, and it's impediments in the acquistion of a first language or second languages. He goes over the research in this area to provide a window to what we know so far about critical periods in SLA. Professor Birdsong is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin (2018), and his areas of interest are second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, bilingualism and French linguistics.

Presentation by Professor Lourdes Ortega (YouTube)

Professor Lourdes Ortega discusses "Best Practices for Error Correction in Second Language Classrooms" in this presentation. Professor Ortega is an accomplished scholar in the field of Second Language Acquisition, and her presentation offers insights about the effect of error correction in second language instruction.

Presentation by Professor Lourdes Ortega (YouTube)

"Plenary speaker: Lourdes Ortega - Multilingual Understandings of English Competence and Success People learn English all over the world, and second-language English students are by definition people on their way to becoming bilinguals or multilinguals. Yet all too often their English is construed as deficient and their multilingual prowess is erased. In this talk, I reflect on what it means to be a successful, communicatively competent speaker of English, in light of the multilingualism of second-language English speakers and the special status of English, with its contested global, international, and lingua franca affordances. I will argue that we cannot understand English competence or learning success, in academic or other contexts, unless we understand English-in-multilingualism and open up our language pedagogies to the psycholinguistic and social realities of multilinguals."

Podcasts

TalkinL2 with BVP

This is a call-in show where professor Bill VanPatten and his crew discuss topics in the field of Second Language Acquisition, and language teachers can call to ask questions or make comments on the topics being discussed. The show is live each Wednesday at 6pm ET / 3pm PT (December 2018).

Tea with BVP

Tea with BVP was a call-in show where professor Bill VanPatten discussed topics within the field of second language acquisition to help language teachers develop a foundation knowledge of the research in the field of SLA. On every epidose, professor Bill VanPatten and his crew proposed a topic in SLA and professor VanPatten offered a brief explanation of the topic and then callers where invited to participate in the discussion of that topic, and they were also encouraged to ask other questions regarding the teaching and learning of a second language.

Speaking of Language

This is a podcast from the Cornell University Language Resource Center. It is currently hosted by professor Angelika Kraemer who is currently (2018) the director of the Language Resource Center at Cornell University. Professor Kraemer interviews professors from Cornell and other visiting professors, and they discuss topics related to SLA and well as issues in teaching and learning.