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Author: Elaine Tarone

12 November 2018


Article, MinneTESOL Journal, (2018), Vol. 34(Issue 2)

Celebrating Fifty Years of ESL at the University of Minnesota (1968-2018)

Minnesota’s first university ESL program seeded programs throughout the state, building a web of caring human relationships that can help bridge linguistic and cultural differences. Dr. Elaine Tarone shares a description of how the program developed, and how, though moving through several…
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20 December 2016


MinneTESOL Journal, (2016), Vol. 32(Issue 2)

Minnesota’s Multilingualism and English Learner Education: A Historical Perspective

This brief illustrated review of 200+ years of Minnesota languages and language teaching reminds us to champion multilingualism and to hold true to our history while we influence our future. The article is based on Elaine Tarone’s plenary address 
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Elaine Tarone

Elaine E. Tarone is the Emeritus Director of the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) and Emeritus Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota. Her books and articles focus on the impact of social context on learner language and second language acquisition. She has also published research on oral second-language processing by low-literacy learners, interlanguage variation, interaction in immersion classrooms, language play, genre analysis, and language teacher education. Past editor of Applied Linguistics and past president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), she holds AAAL’s 2012 Distinguished Scholar and Service Award, and the 2016 TESOL “50 at 50” Award “for significant contributions to the TESOL profession within the last 50 years.”

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