“bill vanpatten”

Last year, the Virgin Mary appeared underneath the Kennedy Expressway. . . . . and so begins the tale of Guadalupe, a story about a Latina woman's struggle with her family's expectations. In this collection of fourteen stories, characters rise to meet life's challenges. A young girl's startling disc... More

"Theories in Second Language Acquisition" surveys the major theoretical approaches currently used in second language acquisition (SLA) research, providing a systematic and coherent presentation in a single source. Each chapter follows a consistent chapter model constructed around the same set of que... More

This book provides an alternative to the "grammar debate" in second language acquisition theory and teaching. Accepting that language acquisition is at least partially input dependent, the author asks how grammatical form is processed in the input by second language learners and is it possible to as... More

This new title in the McGraw-Hill Second Language Professional Series provides an eminently accessible overview of key issues in second language acquisition research, written expressly for second language teachers. Avoiding highly technical jargon and terminology, the author gives a compelling accou... More

This new book, "Processing Instruction: Theory, Research, and Commentary," edited by Bill VanPatten--a pioneer in processing instruction (PI)--is a refreshing presentation of 10 related and not widely available articles that illustrate the role of processing instruction in second language acquisitio... More

"Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition" is an interdisciplinary and timely edited book of essays and empirical studies, most of which are based on the papers presented at the Form and Meaning Conference held in Chicago in 2002. The goal of the conference and now of the book is to p... More