Steven L. Thorne Center for Language Acquisition The Pennsylvania State University 305 Sparks Building University Park, PA 16802-5203 Phone: (814) 865-7365 Fax: (814) 865-7944 Email: slt13@psu.edu Personal Webpage: language.la.psu.edu/~thorne/
Steve Thorne is an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Applied Linguistics, affiliated faculty in Communication Arts and Sciences, and serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Language Acquisition at Penn State. He received his M.A. (in Hindi and Urdu) and Ph.D. (in Education in Language, Literacy, and Culture) from the University of California at Berkeley. His research focuses on cultural historical activity theory, second language acquisition, computer-mediated communication, and issues related to social theory and critical pedagogy. Increasingly Dr. Thorne is thinking about communicative activity from the perspectives of cultural-historical psychology, cognitive linguistics, and cognitive neuroscience. Over the years he has taught Hindi and Urdu and presented talks, workshops and seminars on a variety of language-related topics, including Internet communication and information technologies, intercultural communication, Vygotskian theory, additional language learning and indigenous language revitalization

Thorne, S. L., & Lantolf, J. P.(forthcoming). A linguistics of communicative activity. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Thorne, S. L., & Black, R. W. (2007). New Media Literacies, Online Gaming, and Language Education. (CALPER Working Papers Series, No.8). The Pennsylvania State University, Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research. [CALPER DOWNLOAD]

Thorne, S. L. (2006). New Technologies and Additional Language Learning. (CALPER Working Papers Series, No.7). The Pennsylvania State University, Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research. [CALPER DOWNLOAD]

Thorne, S. L. (2006). Pedagogical and praxiological lessons from internet-mediated intercultural foreign language education research. In J. A. Belz., & S. L. Thorne. (Eds.), Internet-mediated intercultural foreign language education (pp. 2-30). Boston, MA: Heinle & Heinle.

Belz, J. A., & Thorne, S. L. (2006). Computer-mediated intercultural foreign language education . Boston: Heinle & Heinle.

Lantolf, J. P., & Thorne, S. L. (2006). Sociocultural theory and second language acquisition. In B. van Patten., & J. Williams. (Eds.), Explaining second language acquisition . Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Lantolf, J. P., & Thorne, S. L (2006). Sociocultural theory and the genesis of L2 development. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Belz, J. A., & Thorne, S. L. (2006). Introduction: Internet-mediated intercultural foreign language education and the intercultural speaker. In J. A. Belz., & S. L. Thorne. (Eds.), Internet-mediated intercultural foreign language education (pp. iix-xxv). Boston, MA: Heinle & Heinle.

Thorne, S. L. (2005). Epistemology, politics and ethics in sociocultural theory.Modern Language Journal 89: 393-409.

Blair, C., Gamson, D., et al. (2005). Rising mean IQ: Cognitive demand of mathematics education, population exposure to formal schooling, and the neurobiology of the prefrontal cortex. Intelligence 33 : 93-106.

Thorne, S. L., & Payne, J. S. (2005). Introduction to the special issue on Computer-mediated communication and foreign language learning: Context research and practice. CALICO Journal 22(3): 369-370.

Thorne, S. L., & Payne, J. S. (2005). Evolutionary trajectories, internet-mediated expression, and language education. The CALICO Journal 22(3): 371-397.

Thorne, S. L., & Payne, J. S. (2005). Internet-Mediated Text and Multi-Modal Expression in Foreign Language Education . (CALPER Working Papers Series, No. 5.) The Pennsylvania State University: Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research

Thorne, S. L. (2005). Internet-Mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education: Approaches, Pedagogy, and Research . (CALPER Working Papers Series, No. 6.) The Pennsylvania State University: Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research

Thorne, S. L. (2004). Cultural historical activity theory and the object of innovation.In O. St. John, K. van Esch., & E. Schalkwijk. (Eds.), New insights into foreign language learning and teaching (pp. 51-70). Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang Verlag.

Thorne, S. L. (2003). Artifacts and cultures-of-use in intercultural communication. Language Learning and Technology 7(2): 38-67.

Thorne, S. L. (2003). Review of language and the internet (David Crystal): The biggest language revolution ever meets Applied Linguistics in the 21st century. Language Learning and Technology 7(2): 24-27.

Kramsch, C., & Thorne, S. L. (2002). Foreign language learning as global communicative practice. In D. Block., & D. Cameron. (Eds.), Globalization and language teaching (pp. 83-100). London: Routledge.

Thorne, S. L. (2000). Second language acquisition theory and some truth(s) about relativity. In J. P. Lantolf. (Ed.), Sociocultural theory and second language learning (pp. 219-243). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Thorne, S. L. (2000). Beyond bounded activity systems: Heterogeneous cultures in instructional uses of persistent conversations. Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Hawaii International Conference System Sciences: 1-10.

Thorne, S. L. (1998). Relationality and its discontents in SLA: Firth and Wagner and their respondents. Berkeley Language Center Newsletter 13(2): 4-7.