Steve Thorne

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Steve Thorne is Assistant Professor in the department of Applied Linguistics and Associate Director of the Center for Language Acquisition at the Pennsylvania State University. He also serves as the Advisor for Mediated Learning at the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (a national foreign language resource center). His research focuses on cultural-historical activity theory, computer-assisted language learning, new media literacies, second language acquisition, and themes relating to social theory and critical pedagogy. His research has appeared in numerous edited collections as well as the Handbook of New Literacies, the Encyclopedia of Language and Education, the Modern Language Journal, Language Learning & Technology, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, CALICO Journal, Language Teaching, Brain & Cognition, and Intelligence, among other venues. His book length works include a co-edited volume on Internet-mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education (Thomson/Heinle, 2006) and the co-authored book Sociocultural Theory and the Genesis of Second Language Development (Oxford University Press, 2006).

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