VanPatten, Bill

Bill VanPatten is Professor of Spanish and Director of Romance Language Instruction at Michigan State University, where he teaches graduate courses on second-language acquisition and second-language instruction. He has published widely in the areas of input processing, processing instruction, and second-language acquisition more generally. VanPatten has received both local and national awards for his teaching and research, and among practitioners is best known for MAKING COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING HAPPEN (co-authored with James F. Lee) and for several top-selling Spanish language textbook...