Bill VanPatten

Bio and CV

Bill is a native Californian of bilingual/bicultural background. His maternal grandparents fled the chaos and poverty of the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century and eventually settled in the Santa Clara Valley. He attended the University of Santa Clara where he received a B.A. in Spanish and Political Science, then attended the University of Texas at Austin where he received the M.A. in Romance Linguistics and the Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics.

Bill is widely known for his work in input processing and processing instruction, as well as pedagogical matters related to communicative language teaching. He has published over 70 articles and book chapters, six authored or co-authored books, seven edited or co-edited books, and a number of reports and interviews. A few select publications are listed below:

· Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen (with James F. Lee). McGraw-Hill, 2003.

· Theories in SLA (with Jessica Williams). Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.

· Processing Instruction: Theory, Research, and Commentary. Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004.

· From Input to Output: A Teacher’s Guide to Second Language Acquisition. McGraw-Hill, 2003.

For Bill’s curriculum vitae, write to him at bill.vanpatte@ttu.edu

When not engaged in academic pursuits, Bill performs standup comedy and writes fiction. His debut book, Chicago Tales, is a collection of fourteen stories that take place in and around Chicago. Click on the image to the right for more information.