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Julie Belz Wins Prestigious Paul Pimsleur Award

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Dr. Belz an Associate Professor of English in the School of Liberal Arts, has won the 2009 Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in Foreign Language Education for her article published in Language Learning & Technology (citation below).  This award is given by the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Modern Language Journal to the author(s) of an outstanding contribution to research in foreign language or second language education, and is based on the quality of the research and its potential impact on foreign language learning or teaching.  The selection committee is co-chaired by a member from the Editorial Boards for the Modern Language Journal and Foreign Language Annals.  Nominations for this award come from editors of the top applied linguistics and language journals in the world, including: Applied Language Learning, Applied Linguistics, CALICO Journal, Canadian Modern Language Review, Foreign Language Annals, French Review, Hispania, Japanese Language and Literature, Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association, Language Learning, Language Learning and Technology, Modern Language Journal, Studies in Second Language Learning, TESOL Quarterly, and Unterrichtspraxis (Teaching German). This is an extremely prestigious award in the fields of language and applied linguistics, and Dr. Belz joins the ranks of many of the top scholars in the field who have also won this award.

Belz, J. A., & Vyatkina, N. (2008). The pedagogical mediation of a developmental learner corpus for classroom-based language instruction. Language Learning & Technology, 12(3), 98-112.

Published on: October 12, 2009