Department of German
In Press or in Preparation
Books
with Hiram H. Maxim and John M. Norris, Realizing advanced L2 writing development in a collegiate curriculum: From outcomes expectations to assessment. Monograph to be published by The Modern Language Journal, 2010.
Guest edited special issue for Linguistics and Education. Instructed language acquisition as meaning making: Systemic-functional reflections
Book (Translation)
Babette E. Babich. "Eines Gottes Glück voller Macht und Liebe." Essays zu Nietzsche, Hölderlin, Heidegger. To be published by Bauhaus Verlag, Weimar.
Articles
Systemic-functional reflections on instructed language acquisition as meaning-making: An introduction. (Introduction to the guest edited issue of Linguistics and Education).
Emergent L2 German writing ability in a curricular context: A longitudinal study of grammatical metaphor.
From Representation at the Federal/National Level to Creating a Foreign Language Education Framework. (Summary article of national panels on the topic, to appear in Perspectives, MLJ 92,4 (2008).
Books
2008. Editor (with Lourdes Ortega). The Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2 Capacities. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2008. Table of Contents. Amazon link.
2006. Editor: Advanced Language Learning: The Contribution of Halliday and Vygotsky. London: Continuum. Table of contents. Continuum Link. Amazon link.
2006. Editor (with Heather Weger-Guntharp and Katherine A. Sprang): Educating for Advanced Foreign Language Capacities: Constructs, Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Table of contents. Order form. GU Press link.
2004. Editor (with Hiram H. Maxim), Advanced Foreign Language Learning: A Challenge to College Programs. AAUSC Series Issues in Language Program Direction. Boston: Heinle Thomson. Amazon link
1998 Editor. Learning Foreign and Second Languages: Perspectives in Research and Scholarship. New York: The Modern Language Association. MLA link. Amazon link
1992 Editor. Languages for a Multicultural World in Transition. Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Co. Amazon link
1991 Joint author (with Janet Swaffar and Katherine Arens). Reading for Meaning: An Integrated Approach to Language Learning. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
1989 Contributing editor (with Irene Thompson). The ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview Tester Training Manual. Yonkers, NY: ACTFL.
1987 Joint author (with Stefan R. Fink), Wendepunkt, Intermediate Level College German Textbook, with audio materials, teacher handbook and test bank. Boston, MA: Heinle & Heinle.
1987 Joint author (with Stefan R. Fink), Workbook for Wendepunkt. Boston, MA: Heinle & Heinle.
1986 Editor (with Michael Canale). Defining and Developing Proficiency: Guidelines, Implementations and Concepts. Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Company. Amazon Link
1982 Editor. Contemporary Perceptions of Language: Interdisciplinary Dimensions. GURT 1982. Washington, DC: GU Press.
2008. Wer hat Angst vor Englisch. Nachdenken über Deutschlehren und -lernen in den USA. In Jutta Limbach, ed. Die Macht der Sprache. München: Goethe Institut.[On-line Ausgabe]
2008. Grammatical Metaphor as a Marker of Evolving L2 Advancedness: Some Conceptual and Textual Considerations, pp. 191-201. In Bernt Ahrenholz, Ursula Bredel, Wolfgang Klein, Martina Rost-Roth, and Romuald Skiba, eds. Empirische Forschung und Theoriebildung. Beiträge zur Soziolinguistik, Gesprochene-Sprache-und Zweitspracherwerbsforschung. Festschrift für Norbert Dittmar zum 65. Geburtstag. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
2008. (with Lourdes Ortega). The Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2 Capacities: An Introduction, pp. 3-20. In Lourdes Ortega and Heidi Byrnes, eds. The Longitudinal Development of Advanced L2 Capacities. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
2008. (with Lourdes Ortega). Theorizing Advancedness: Setting up the Longitudinal Research Agenda, pp. 281-299. In Lourdes Ortega and Heidi Byrnes, eds. The Longitudinal Development of Advanced L2 Capacities. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
2008. (with Castle Sinicrope). Advancedness and the Development of Relativization in L2 German: A Curriculum-based Longitudinal Study, pp. 109-138. In Lourdes Ortega and Heidi Byrnes, eds. The Longitudinal Development of Advanced L2 Capacities. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
2008. Assessing Content and Language. Language Testing and Assessment, pp. 37-52. Elana Shohamy, ed. Vol. 7 Encyclopedia of Language and Education, 2nd rev. ed. Nancy Hornberger, gen. ed. Berlin: Springer-Kluwer Academic Publishers.
2007. Language Acquisition and Language Learning. Introduction to Scholarship, pp. 48-69. David Nicholls, ed. New York: MLA (3rd. ed.) MLA link
2006. What Kind of Resource is Language and Why Does it Matter for Advanced Language Learning? An Introduction, pp. 1-28. Advanced Language Learning: The Contribution of Halliday and Vygotsky. In Heidi Byrnes, ed. London: Continuum.
2006. Locating the Advanced Learner in Theory, Research, and Educational Practice: An introduction, pp. 1-14. Educating for Advanced Foreign Language Capacities: Constructs, Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment. Heidi Byrnes, Heather Weger-Guntharp, and Katherine A. Sprang, eds. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
2006. A Semiotic Perspective on Culture and Foreign Language Teaching: Implications for Collegiate Materials Development, pp. 37-66. Language and Culture out of Bounds: Discipline-Blurred Perspectives on the Foreign Language Classroom. Vicky Galloway and Bettina Cothran, eds. Boston, MA: Thomson.
2005. Content-based Foreign Language Instruction. Mind and Context in Adult Second Language Acquisition: Methods, Theory, and Practice, pp. 282-302. Cristina Sanz, ed. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
2004. Toward a Comprehensive Conceptualization of TA Education: Contents, Commitments, Structures, pp, 135-155.Teacher Education for Second or Foreign Language Contexts: International Perspectives on Research and Practice, Diane J. Tedick, ed. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
2004. (with Katherine A. Sprang). Fostering Advanced L2 Literacy: A Genre-based, Cognitive Approach, pp. 47-85. Advanced Foreign Language Learning: A Challenge to College Programs, Heidi Byrnes and Hiram H. Maxim, eds. AAUSC Issues in Language Program Direction. Boston, MA: Heinle Thomson.
2004. (with Hiram H. Maxim). Introduction: Creating Sites for Collegiate Advanced Foreign Language Learning, pp. vii-xv. Advanced Foreign Language Learning: A Challenge to College Programs, Heidi Byrnes and Hiram H. Maxim, eds. AAUSC Issues in Language Program Direction. Boston, MA: Heinle Thomson.
2002. Reflections on a Report. ( A follow-up on my earlier report, "The Future of German in American Education" 1996, reprinted in this collection.) In George F. Peters, ed. Teaching German in America. Past Progress and Future Promise. A Handbook for Teaching and Research, pp. 34-38. Cherry Hill, NJ: The American Association of Teachers of German.
2002. Toward Academic-Level Foreign Language Abilities: Reconsidering Foundational Assumptions, Expanding Pedagogical Options, pp. 34-58. Developing Professional-Level Language Proficiency, Betty Lou Leaver and Boris Shekhtman, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2002. Contexts for Advanced Foreign Language Learning: A Report on An Immersion Institute, pp. 61-76. Developing Professional-Level Language Proficiency, Betty Lou Leaver and Boris Shekhtman, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2001. with Susanne Kord. Developing Literacy and Literary Competence: Challenges for FL Departments, pp. 31-69. SLA and the Literature Classroom: Fostering Dialogues. Virginia Scott and Holly Tucker, eds. Boston: Heinle & Heinle.
2001. The Dialogism of Meaning, the Discursive Embeddedness of Knowledge, the Colloquy of Being, pp. 409-420. Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Van Gogh's Eyes, and God: Essays in Honor of Patrick A. Heelan, S.J., Babette E. Babich, ed. Boston, Dordrecht: Kluwer.
2001. Articulating Foreign Language Programs: The Need for New, Curricular Bases, pp. 157-180. Foreign Language Program Articulation:Current Practice and Future Prospects. Carolyn Gascoigne, ed. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey Press.
2000. Languages Across the Curriculum - Intradepartmental Curriculum Construction: Issues and Options, pp. 151-175. Languages Across the Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Structures and Internationalized Education. Maria-Regina Kecht and Katharina von Hammerstein, eds. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University, National East Asian Language Resource Center.
2000. Educating Teachers of Slavic Languages: Into the Looking Glass Brightly, pp. 477-496. The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages and Cultures: Toward the 21st Century, Olga Kagan and Benjamin Rifkin, eds. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publications.
1999. Meaning and Form in Classroom-Based SLA Research: Reflections from a College Foreign Language Perspective, pp. 125-179. Meaning and Form: Multiple Perspectives, James F. Lee and Albert Valdman, eds. Boston, MA: Heinle & Heinle.
1998 "Reading in the Beginning and Intermediate College Foreign Language Class." Modules for the Professional Preparation of Teaching Assistants in Foreign Languages, Grace S. Burkart, ed. Washington, DC: Center for International Education, U.S. Department of Education (Grant # PO17A50050-95-A).
1998 Introduction. Steps to an Ecology of Foreign Language Departments, pp. 1-22. Learning Foreign and Second Languages: Perspectives in Research and Scholarship, Heidi Byrnes, ed. New York: The Modern Language Association.
1998. Constructing Curricula in Collegiate Foreign Language Departments, pp. 262-295. Learning Foreign and Second Languages: Perspectives in Research and Scholarship, Heidi Byrnes, ed. New York: The Modern Language Association.
1996. The AP German Examination: A College Perspective, pp. 1-4. Teacher's Guide to the Advanced Placement Course in German Language. Princeton: Educational Testing Service.
1996. How Visible are We Now, pp. 46-52. The Future of Germanistik in the USA: Changing our Prospects, eds. John A. McCarthy and Katrin Schneider. Vanderbilt University Press.
1992. The New Undergraduate Curriculum, pp. 9-15. Vision 2020 AATSEEL-ACTR, eds. Diane Cuykendall and Ray Parrott. Washington, DC: American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.
1992 .The State of Second Language Instruction and Curriculum. Chapter in the Foreign Language Section in the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Curriculum Handbook, pp. 7.7-17. Also included in that volume: Discussion of Principle 1 (7.19-20) and Principle 4 (7.27-28). Alexandria, VA: ASCD. In 1996 this material was made available on CD-ROM.
1992. Crosscultural Communication: Identity in Diversity, pp. 61-84. Minding the Time 1492-1992: Jesuit Education and Issues in American Culture. William J. O'Brien, ed., Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
1991. In Search of a Sense of Place: The State of the Art in Language Teaching Methodology, pp. 355-367. Linguistics and Language Pedagogy: The State of the Art, James E. Alatis, ed., Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
1991. Issues in Foreign Language Program Articulation, pp. 6-28. Critical Issues in Foreign Language Education, Ellen S. Silber, ed., New York: Garland Publishing.
1991. Reflections on the Development of Cross-Cultural Communicative Competence in the Foreign Language Classroom, pp. 205-218. Foreign Language Acquisition Research and the Classroom, Barbara F. Freed, ed., New York: D.C. Heath.
1989. The Rating Scale. Chapter 2 of The ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview Tester Training Manual. Yonkers, NY: ACTFL.
1989. Strategies for Eliciting Speech. Chapter 5 of The ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview Tester Training Manual. Yonkers, NY: ACTFL.
1989. Who Is in Charge in the Learner-curriculum-testing Connection? pp. 265-275. Language Teaching, Testing, and Technology: Lessons from the Past with a View toward the Future, James E. Alatis, ed., Washington, DC.: Georgetown University Press.
1987. Features of Pragmatic and Sociolinguistic Competence in the Oral Proficiency Interview, pp. 167-177. Proceedings of the Symposium on the Evaluation of Foreign Language Proficiency, Albert Valdmann, ed., Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, CREDLI.
1987. Getting a Better Reading: Initiatives in Foreign Language Reading Instruction, pp. 171-203. Initiatives in Communicative Language Teaching II, Sandra J. Savignon and Margie S. Berns, eds., Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
1986. Second Language Acquisition: Insights from a Proficiency Orientation, pp. 107-131. Defining and Developing Proficiency: Guidelines, Implementations and Concepts, Heidi Byrnes and Michael Canale, eds., Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Co.
1985. Teaching for Proficiency: The Receptive Skills, pp. 77-107. Proficiency, Curriculum, Articulation: The Ties that Bind. Alice C. Omaggio, ed., Middlebury, VT: The Northeast Conference.
Journal Articles
2008. What Kind of Resource is Language and Why Does it Matter for German Studies? German Quarterly, 81,1: 8-19.
2008. Articulating a Foreign Language Sequence through Content. A Look at the Culture Standards. Language Teaching, 41, 1: 97-113.
2007. Developing National Language Education Policicies. Reflections on the CEFR. Modern Language Journal, 91, 4: 678-684.
2007. Second and Foreign Language Pedagogy. Invited paper for the 30th anniversary session at AAAL, 2007 (Language Learning Round Table). ed. by Albert Valdman. Available on AAAL web site.
2006. Taking Text to Task: Issues and Choices in Curriculum Construction. (with Cori Crane, Hiram H. Maxim, and Katherine A. Sprang). International Journal of Applied Linguistics 19, 2: 1-25.
2005. Literacy as a Framework for Advanced Language Acquisition. ADFL Bulletin, 37.1:11-15.
2005. Perspectives on Curriculum Construction at the Post-Secondary Level: Contexts, Approaches, Principles. Russian Language Journal, 55 (2001-2005): 143-167.
2005. Reconsidering the Nexus of Content and Language: A Mandate of the NCLB Legislation. Modern Language Journal, 89,2: 277-282.
2005. The Privilege of the Less Commonly Taught Languages: Linking Literacy and Advanced L2 Capacities. The Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages 2 (spring): 21-44.
2004. Advanced Literacy: Beyond Option or Privilege. ADFL Bulletin. 36.1: 52-60.
2002. The Cultural Turn in Foreign Language Departments: Challenge and Opportunity. Profession 2002:114-129 (revised version of "Language and Culture", 2002).
2002 The Role of Task and Task-based Assessment in a Content-oriented Collegiate FL Curriculum. Language Testing 19.4: 425-443. (Special issue on task-based assessment, John M. Norris, guest editor).
2002 with Cori Crane and Katherine A. Sprang. Non-native Teachers Teaching at the Advanced Level: Challenges and Opportunities. ADFL Bulletin 33.3: 25-34.
2002 Language and Culture: Shall Ever the Twain Meet in Foreign Language Departments? ADFL Bulletin 33.2: 25-32.
2001 Reconsidering Graduate Students' Education as Teachers: It Takes a Department! Modern Language Journal 85.4: 512-530.
2001 Faculty Assessment and Evaluation: Additional Considerations. ADFL Bulletin 32.3: 34-36.
2000 Shaping the Discourse of a Practice: The Role of Linguistics and Psychology in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning. Invited contribution to MLJ anniversary issue, 2000, guest editor James Lantolf. Modern Language Journal 84,4:473-495
2000 Of Standards, Articulation and Curriculum: Finding a New Narrative. "Front Page Dialogue"Feature in ACTR Letter 26,3:1,3,10-13; and 26,4:1,3-4,23-24.
1997 Governing Language Departments: Is Form Function? ADFL Bulletin 29,1:7-12
994 Faculty Assessment and Evaluation. In Chairing the Foreign Language and Literature Department, a special issue of the ADFL Bulletin, Ann Bugliani, ed., vol 25,3:17-22.
1992 'Proficiency and the Prevention of Fossilization': A Response. Modern Language Journal 76:371-378.
1990 Foreign Language Departments and the Cultural Component of an International-Studies Program. ADFL Bulletin 22,1:10-15.
1990 Addressing Curriculum Articulation in the Nineties: A Proposal. Foreign Language Annals 23,4:281-292.
1988 Whither Foreign Language Pedagogy: Reflections in Textbooks - Reflections on Textbooks. Die Unterrichtspraxis 21,1:29-36. (20th anniversary issue).
1988 How Do You Get There from Here? Articulating the Foreign Language Major Program. ADFL Bulletin 20,1:35-38.
1987 Deutsch-amerikanische Mißverständnisse. Sprachreport 3:1-2.
1987 Speech as Process. Foreign Language Annals, 20,4:301-310.
1987 Second Language Acquisition Research: Does it Suggest Program Goals? ADFL Bulletin 18,3:35-39.
1987 Proficiency as a Framework for Research in Second Language Acquisition. The Modern Language Journal 71,1:44-49.
1986 Proficiency: Concepts and Developments. In special issue of ADFL Bulletin 18,1:9-10, "Proficiency and the Profession."
1986 Interactional Style in German and American Conversations. In special issue of Text 6,2:189-206, "Crosscultural Communication," Deborah Tannen, guest editor.
1984 Grammar - Communicative Competence - Functions/Notions. Implications for and from a Proficiency Orientation. Die Unterrichtspraxis 17,2:194-206.
1984 The Role of Listening Comprehension: A Theoretical Base. Foreign Language Annals 17,4:317-329.
1983 Discourse Analysis and the Teaching of Writing. ADFL Bulletin 15,2:30-36.
1982 Enhancing Second Language Acquisition by a Focus on Listening Comprehension: The Potential of the Cassette. Foreign Language Annals 15,1:37-46, (joint author with Stefan R. Fink and Aurelia Roman).
Perspectives, The Modern Language Journal
Note: Where links are provided, these are electronic versions of articles published in the MLJ. The definitive version is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website at http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/mlj or at http://blackwell-synergy.com.
86.2 (Summer 2002). Enrollment in colleges: Language curricula in universities: What and how. 242-255.
86.4 (Winter 2002). Enrollment in K-12. 604-616.
87.2 (Summer 2003). Implications of language education policies for language study in schools and universities: International perspectives. 277-296.
87.4 (Winter 2003). Implications of language education policies for language study in schools and universities: U.S. perspectives. 578-597.
88.2 (Summer 2004): Teaching language and cultures in a post-9/11 world: North American perspectives. 266-291.
88.4 (Winter 2004): Teaching languages and cultures in a post-9/11 world: International perspectives. 617-631.
89.2 (Summer 2005). The No Child Left Behind Act and teaching and learning languages in U.S. schools. 248-282.
89.4 (Winter 2005): The position of heritage languages in language education policy. 582-616.
90.2 (Summer 2006): Interrogating communicative competence as a framework for collegiate foreign language study. 244-266.
90.4 (Winter 2006). The outcomes of collegiate FL programs: Specifications, assessment, evaluation. 574-601.
91.2 (Summer 2007). National language education policy. (Guest editors Robert Blake and Claire Kramsch). 247-283.
91.4 (Winter 2007). The Common European Framework of Reference: Perspectives on the making of supranational language education policy. 640-684.
92.2 (Summer 2008). Transforming college and university foreign language departments: A proposal. 284-312.
Commentaries, Editorials, Manuscripts
2001 ERIC Document Center (accepted, pending assignment of code number). Toward a Comprehensive Conceptualization of TA Education: Contents, Commitments, Structures.
2001 White Paper for the Summit Conference on the Future of Language Learning: Curriculum Construction at the Post-Secondary Level, sponsored by FIPSE, Organized by ACTR in cooperation with the NFLC.http://www.russnet.org/fipse/ByrnesWhitePaper.html April 18, 2001 (12 pages).
2001 Discussion Paper for the Border-Crossing Session Roundtable: "An integrated curriculum for the foreign language classroom. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, March 22-25, 2001. Chicago, IL. http://www.colorado.edu/ealld/atj/Newsletter/News24-1/roundtbl.html. (26 pp.)
1998 "Thinking globally and acting locally in the (foreign) language professions: A response to Dorothy James article "Bypassing the Traditional Leadership: Who's Minding the Store?" (ADFL Bulletin 28.3 (1997): 5-11) ADFL Bulletin 29.3 (1998): 46-50.
1996 The Future of German in American Education: A Summary Report. Die Unterrichtspraxis 29.2:251-59.
1996 An Action Agenda for German Studies for the 21st Century, pp. 162-64. The Future of Germanistik in the USA: Changing our Prospects, eds. John A. McCarthy and Katrin Schneider. Vanderbilt University Press.
1994 Response to Claire Kramsch's position paper "Embracing Conflict versus Achieving Consensus in Foreign Language Education." ADFL Bulletin 26,3 (1995):13-15.
Response to James F. Jones, Jr. position paper "Quid Petis? A Witness for the Defense." ADFL Bulletin 26,3 (1995):34-36.
1995 Faculty Hiring: A Pivotal Opportunity to Foster a Culture of Teaching. (Together with Lee S. Shulman. AAHE Bulletin 47.9 (May 1995):6-10.
1992 Testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee. ADFL Bulletin 24,1 (Fall) 1992:5-7
1992 Introduction to the Humanities, pp. 241-42. The College Board Guide to 150 Popular College Majors. New York: College Entrance Examination Board. Reprinted 1999.
1990 Foreign Language Program Articulation between High Schools and Universities. ERIC Digest, July 1990.
1985 Proficiency-Based Instruction in Reading. A Teacher Education Module. German Sample Materials. Published by June K. Phillips, Project Director, under a U.S. Deptmt. of Ed. grant (#G008402271), pp. 56-62.
1983 Proficiency-Based German Language Programs. ERIC Clearing House. ED 240-833.
2008. John M. Norris and Lourdes Ortega (2006). Synthesizing Research on Language Learning and Teaching. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Modern Language Journal, 92,1: 148-150.
2007. Rod Ellis, ed. (2005). Planning and Task Performance in a Second Language. Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Modern Language Journal 91,2: 298-299.
2006. Martina Möllering (2004). The Acquisition of German Modal Particles: A Corpus-based Approach. Bern: Peter Lang. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 28,1: 150-152.
2005. Rod Ellis (2003). Task-based Language Learning and Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Modern Language Journal 89,2: 297-298.
2005. David Block (2003). The Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Canadian Modern Language Review 61,3: 433-436.
2004. Patrick Stevenson (2002). Language and German Discunity: A Sociolinguistic History of East and West in Germany, 1945 - 2000. New York: Oxford University Press. German Politics and Society 22,2:81-90.
2003. Ursula Wingate (2002) The Effectiveness of Different Learner Dictionaries: An Investigation into the Use of Dictionaries for Reading Comprehension by Intermediate Learners of German. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2002. Logos and Language 3,2:60-63.
2003. Michael P. Breen, (2001), ed. Learner Contributions to Language Learning: New Directions in Research. Applied Linguistics and Language Study. Essex, UK: Pearson. 2001. Canadian Modern Language Review 59,4:609-611.
2003. Elana Shohamy. (2001). The Power of Tests: A Critical Perspective On the Uses of Language Tests. Harlow, England: Longman. Modern Language Journal 87:496-97.
2002. Bygate, Martin, Peter Skehan, and Merrill Swain, eds. Researching Pedagogic Tasks: Second Language Learning, Teaching and Testing. Essex, UK: Pearson, 2001. Canadian Modern Language Review 59,2:308-310.
2002. Titscher, Stefan, Michael Meyer, Ruth Wodak, and Eva Vetter. Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis. London/Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2000. Modern Language Journal 86,1:136-137.
2000. Jörg Roche: Reading German, A CD-ROM-Based Course for Reading Comprehension (Center for Intercultural Language Studies/Department of Germanic Studies, University of British Columbia. Language Learning and Technology 3,2:21-26.
1999. Skehan, Peter. Cognitive Approaches to Language Learning. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Modern Language Journal 83,1:140-142.
1997. Dietrich, Rainer, Wolfgang Klein, and Colette Noyau. The Acquisition of Temporality in a Second Language. John Benjamins, 1995. Applied Linguistics 18,4:560-564.
1997 Bialystok, Ellen, and Kenji Hakuta. In Other Words: The Science and Psychology of Second-Language Acquisition. New York: Basic Books, 1994. Modern Language Journal 81,1:198-200.
1997 Lantolf, James P., and Gabriela Appel, eds. Vygotskian Approaches to Second Language Research. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1994. Applied Linguistics 18,1:103-107.
1996 Greene, Judith, and Mark Coulson. Language Understanding: Current Issues. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1995. Modern Language Journal. 80,4:534.
1996 France, Alan W. Composition as a Cultural Practice. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1994. Modern Language Journal 80, 2:240
1994 Coates, Jennifer. Women, Men and Language. Second edition. (London & New York: Longman, 1993), pp. x, 228. Modern Language Journal 78,4:559-560.
1991 Müller,Martin, Lukas Wertenschlag, and Jürgen Wolff, eds. Autonomes und partnerschaftliches Lernen: Modelle und Beispiele aus dem Fremdsprachenunterricht. (Berlin: Langenscheidt, 1989), pp. 208. The Modern Language Journal, 75,2:238-239.
1991 Eisenstein, Miriam R., ed. The Dynamic Interlanguage: Empirical Studies in Second Language Variation. (New York: Plenum Press, 1989), pp. 323. Modern Language Journal 75,1:122.
1988 Crombie, Winifred. Process and Relation in Discourse and Language Learning. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. xvii, 150. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 10,1:107-108.
1987 Slobin, Dan Isaac, ed. The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition. Volume 1: The Data. Volume 2: Theoretical Issues. (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1985), pp. xi, 1332. Modern Language Journal 71,3:371-374.
1985 Ur, Penny. Teaching Listening Comprehension. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1984), pp. x, 173. Modern Language Journal 69,2:162.
2008. Babette E. Babich. Hören und Lesen, Musik und Wissenschaft. Nietzsche's "gaya scienza," pp. 118-143. In Beatrix Vogler, Hg. Mit Nietzsche denken. Munich: Allitera.
2007. Babette E. Babich. Musik und Wort in der antiken Tragödie und La gaya scienza: Nietzsche's "Fröhliche Wissenschaft". Nietzsche Studien, 36.
2004. Babette E. Babich. Heidegger's Beiträge as Will to Power. (30 page manuscript, without endnotes). Keynote address presented at the Second Meeting of the Martin Heidegger Research Group, Meßkirch, May 25-29, 2004.
2004. Babette E. Babich. Die Wahrheit des Kunstwerkes: Gadamers Hermeneutik zwischen Martin Heidegger und Meyer Schapiro, pp. 55-80. Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, ed. Günter Figal. Vol. 3. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck Verlag.
2004. Babette E. Babich. Zwischen Hölderlin und Heidegger: Nietzsches Verklärung der Philosophie. In Hölderlinturm-Vorträge, edited by Valerie Lawitschka. Tübingen: Attempo Verlag. (with Holger Schmid).
2003. Babette E. Babich. Der Wissenschaftsbegriff bei Martin Heidegger und Medard Boss. Philosophisches Denken und Daseinsanalyse, 249-268. In Zwischen Philosophie, Medizin und Psychologie. Heidegger im Dialog mit Medard Boss. Hrsgb. Manfred Riedel, Harald Seubert und Hanspeter Padrutt. Köln: Böhlau Verlag.
2002. Babette E. Babich. Between Hölderlin and Heidegger: Nietzsche's Transfiguration of Philosophy. (Zwischen Hölderlin und Heidegger: Nietzsches Verklärung der Philosophie.). Hölderlin-Studien.
1994 Samuel H. Barnes. Political Participation in Old and New European Democracies: Themes for a Research Agenda. (Politische Partizipation in alten und neuen europäischen Demokratien: Themen für eine Forschungsagenda). With Peter C. Pfeiffer.
1994 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. Nietzsche: Perception of Modernity, pp. 221-240. Nietzsche, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science, Vol. II Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 204. Babette E. Babich, ed., in cooperation with Robert S. Cohen. Dordrecht/Boston: Kluwer.
2008-2011. Member, Editorial Board for the 18 volume Encyclopaedia of Applied Linguistics, Carol Chapelle, general editor (Wiley-Blackwell), to be published Nov. 2011.
2002-2006, Member, Editorial Board of the Series "Teaching Languages, Literatures, and Cultures" of the MLA. Chair, 2003-2005.
2000-2002, Member, Advisory Council of the PMLA.
2001-present. Associate Editor, The Modern Language Journal. Responsible for Perspectives column, published twice yearly. First issue 86.2, summer 2002.
1994-present. Member Editorial Board, The Modern Language Journal.
2000- Member, Editorial Board, AAUSC series Issues in Language Program Direction.
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