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Overview

Bill VanPatten is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Arts and Humanities as well as Psychology, contributing to a total of eight publications in these broad fields. The main subfields in which they have published include Language and Linguistics, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, and Linguistics and Language.

Their work centers on several topics related to language acquisition and education, including:

  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • Multilingual Education and Policy

Bill VanPatten has a record of publications in notable academic journals. Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Foreign Language Annals
  • Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Recent papers authored or coauthored that contribute to the field include:

  • Was Krashen right? Forty years later, 2021, Foreign Language Annals
  • Krashen forty years later: Final comments, 2021, Foreign Language Annals
  • Kimberly Geeslin, In Memoriam, 2023, Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Collaboration is an element of their research with frequent co-authors including Karen Lichtman, Megan Smith, Michael J. Leeser, Gregory D. Keating, and Wynne Wong.

In terms of book publications, Bill VanPatten has contributed to works published by Cambridge University Press and John Benjamins Publishing Company. Titles include:

  • Explicit and Implicit Learning in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
  • Key Questions in Second Language Acquisition, 2025
  • Research on second language processing and processing instruction: studies in honor of Bill VanPatten, 2021

Best Publications

  • Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen. Volume 1: Directions for Language Learning and Teaching.

    James F. Lee;Bill VanPatten

  • Explicit Instruction and Input Processing

    Bill VanPatten;Teresa Cadierno

  • Processing instruction: An update

    Bill VanPatten

  • Attending to Form and Content in the Input

    Bill VanPatten

  • Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen

    James F. Lee;Bill VanPatten

  • Input processing in second language acquisition

    Bill VanPatten

  • Input Processing in Adult SLA

    Bill VanPatten

  • Explanation versus Structured Input in Processing Instruction.

    Bill VanPatten;Soile Oikkenon

  • Key Terms in Second Language Acquisition

    Bill VanPatten;Alessandro G. Benati

  • From input to output : a teacher's guide to second language acquisition

    Bill VanPatten

  • Input Processing and Second Language Acquisition: A Role for Instruction

    Bill Vanpatten;Teresa Cadierno

  • Input Processing and Grammar Instruction in Second Language Acquisition

    Bill VanPatten

  • Input Processing and Grammar Instruction: Theory and Research

    Deborah Wilburn Robinson;Bill Vanpatten

  • Theories in second language acquisition : an introduction

    Bill VanPatten;Jessica Williams

  • Grammar Teaching for the Acquisition-Rich Classroom

    Bill VanPatten

  • Talking to learn : conversation in second language acquisition

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  • Processing Instruction : Theory, Research, and Commentary

    BIll VanPatten

  • Form-meaning connections in second language acquisition

    Bill VanPatten;Jessica Williams;Susanne Rott;Mark Overstreet

  • The Evidence is IN: Drills are OUT

    Wynne Wong;Bill VanPatten

  • Input Processing in Adult Second Language Acquisition.

    Bill VanPatten

  • What does current generative theory have to say about the explicit-implicit debate?

    Bill VanPatten;Jason Rothman

  • Several reflections on why there is good reason to continue researching the effects of processing instruction

    Bill VanPatten

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason Rothman
Jason Rothman University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

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