Elaine E. Tarone Director of CARLA Elaine E. Tarone is the Director of the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) and a Professor in the English as a Second Language Program at the University of Minnesota. Her research publications focus on the impact of social context on learner language and second language acquisition. She has published research on oral second-language processing by low-literacy learners, interlanguage variation, interaction in immersion classrooms, language play, and genre analysis. A member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, she is a recipient of the College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education. For copies of Dr. Tarone's publications visit the Faculty Expertise Database

Education

M.A., Ph.D. Speech Science; University of Washington, Seattle, 1972
(Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Linguistics)

Diploma, Applied Linguistics; Edinburgh University, Scotland, 1969

Secondary Teaching Credential in English & Spanish; University of California at Berkeley, 1967
B.A. English, Spanish; University of California at Berkeley, 1966
Phi Beta Kappa; Distinction in General Scholarship

Selected Publications

Elaine Tarone and Martha Bigelow. (2007). Alphabetic print literacy and processing of oral corrective feedback in L2 interaction. In Alison Mackey (Ed.), Conversational interaction in second language acquisition: A series of empirical studies (pp. 101-121). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Elaine Tarone, Bonnie Swierzbin, and Martha Bigelow. (2007). Impact of literacy level on features of interlanguage in oral narratives. (Thomas Baldwin and Larry Selinker, guest eds.) Rivista di Psicolinguistica Applicata, Special Issue on Interlanguage, VI(3), 65-77.

Elaine Tarone. (2007). Sociolinguistic approaches to second language acquisition research, 1997-2997. Modern Language Journal, 91, 837-848.

Martha Bigelow, Bob DelMas, Kit Hansen, and Elaine Tarone. (2006). Literacy and the processing of oral recasts in SLA, TESOL Quarterly 40, 1-25.

Elaine Tarone. (2006). The language classroom: A co-production of all participants. In Ines Miller & Simon Gieve (Eds.), Directions in Classroom Language Learning and Teaching: A festschrift for Dick Allwright (pp. 163-174). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Elaine Tarone (2006). Fossilization, social context & language play. In ZhaoHong Han & Terence Odlin (Eds.), Perspectives on Fossilization (pp. 157-172). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Elaine Tarone and Martha Bigelow (2005). Impact of literacy on oral language processing: Implications for SLA research, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 25, 77-97

Elaine Tarone (2005). English for specific purposes and interlanguage pragmatics. In Kathleen Bardovi Harlig and Beverly Hartford (Eds.), Interlanguage Pragmatics: Exploring Institutional Talk (pp. 157-176). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.

Elaine Tarone. (2005). Schools of fish: English for access to international academic and professional communities, The AsiaTEFL Journal, 2(1), 1-20.

Martha Bigelow and Elaine Tarone, (2004). The role of literacy level in SLA: Doesn’t who we study determine what we know? TESOL Quarterly, 38(4), 689-700.

Elaine Tarone. (2002). Frequency effects, noticing, and creativity: Factors in a variationist interlanguage framework, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 24, 287-296. (invited)

Maggie Broner and Elaine Tarone. (2001). Is it fun? Language play in a fifth grade Spanish immersion classroom, Modern Language Journal, 85, 363-379.

Bonnie Swierzbin, Frank Morris, Mike Anderson, Carol Klee and Elaine Tarone (Eds.). (2000). The Interaction of Social and Cognitive Factors in SLA: Proceedings of the 1999 Second Language Research Forum. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Elaine Tarone. (2000). Still wrestling with ‘context’ in interlanguage theory, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 20,182-198.

Carol Klee, Andrew Lynch, and Elaine Tarone (Eds.). (1998). Research and Practice in Immersion Education: Looking Back and Looking Ahead. Selected Conference Proceedings, CARLA Working Paper Series #9. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota.

Elaine Tarone, Susan Gass, and Andrew Cohen, (Eds.). (1994). Issues in Second Language Acquisition Research Methodology Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.

Elaine Tarone and George Yule. (1989). Focus on the Language Learner: Approaches to Identifying and Meeting the Needs of Second Language Learners. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Elaine Tarone. (1988). Variation in Interlanguage. London: Edward Arnold Publishers.