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Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition, World Languages and Literatures

My interests include dynamic, distributed, cultural-historical and usage-based approaches to language development, language use and learning in social media and online gaming environments, and research that examines human activity at the nexus of technologies-cultures.

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About Steven L. Thorne

My interests include dynamic, distributed, cultural-historical and usage-based approaches to language development, language use and learning in social media and online gaming environments, and research that examines human activity at the nexus of technologies-cultures.

Present	Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition, Portland State University ‐ World Languages and Literatures
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Communication Technology and New Media and First and Second Language Acquisition

Second language development, Indigenous language revitalization, Cultural-historical activity theory, and Digital media and online games

Articles (35)

Catalan Identity and Language Attitudes Through Fan Translation of Video ...

Journal of Language Identity and Education (2022)

Boris Vazquez-Calvo and Steve L. Thorne

For fans of popular cultural products, digitization has meant the configuration of affinity spaces online and opportunities for learning in ...

Coda: the Interactional Affordances and Constraints of Technology-Rich Teaching and ...

Classroom Discourse (2022)

Steven L. Thorne and John Hellermann

This coda describes various affordances and constraints associated with technology-rich language teaching and learning. It begins with a discussion of ...

Collaborative Mobilizations of Interbodied Communication for Cooperative Action

Modern Language Journal (2022)

John Hellermann and Steven L. Thorne

Drawing on usage-based approaches to the study of language learning—including recent research on mobility in interaction, embodied approaches to cognition ...

Localized Globalization: Directives in Augmented Reality Game Interaction

Modern Language Journal (2021)

Tetyana Sydorenko, Steven L. Thorne, John Hellermann, Amber Sanchez, et al.

In what has been termed the global era, individuals from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds frequently participate in joint activities ...

Rewilding Language Education: Emergent Assemblages and Entangled Actions

Modern Language Journal (2021)

Steven L. Thorne, John Hellermann and Teppo Jakonen

Integrating concepts and techniques from ethnomethodology and sociomaterialism, this article investigates the observable material processes involving human action and place-based ...

Telehealth, Tele-Happy Hours, Tele-Everything

At This Moment Webinar Series (2020)

Todd N. Rosenstiel, Megann McGill, John Hellermann and Steven L. Thorne

Panelists talk about how they are making telepractice work through collaboration, exploring the impacts of physical distancing as a result ...

Contribution to Book

'Distributed' Language for Learning in the Wild

Cambridge Introduction to Applied Linguistics (2020)

John Hellermann and Steven L. Thorne

Book summary:Language teaching, dementia, personal identity, the training of law students - if you skim the contents of this book, ...

Mobile Augmented Reality and Language-Related Episodes

TESOL Quarterly (2019)

Tetyana Sydorenko, John Hellermann, Steven L. Thorne and Vanessa Howe

Applications of locative media (e.g., place‐based mobile augmented reality [AR]) are used in various educational content areas and have been ...

Contribution to Book

Building Socio-environmental Infrastructures for Learning

Conversation Analytic Research on Learning-in-Action The Complex Ecology of Second Language Interaction ‘in the wild’ (2019)

John Hellermann, Steven L. Thorne and Jamalieh Haley

Language use, second-language development, and technology mediated human activity are complex processes situated in, and in some cases demonstrably interwoven ...

Refining Pragmatically-appropriate Oral Communication Via Computer-simulated Conversations

Computer Assisted Language Learning (2017)

Tetyana Sydorenko, Phoebe Daurio and Steven L. Thorne

To address the problem of limited opportunities for practicing second language speaking in interaction, especially delicate interactions requiring pragmatic competence, ...

Mobile Augmented Reality: Hyper Contextualization and Situated Language Usage Events

World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations (2017)

Steven L. Thorne and John Hellermann

Language use, second-language development, and technology mediated human activity are complex processes situated in, and in some cases demonstrably interwoven ...

Mobile Reading as Social and Embodied Practice

Classroom Disclosure (2017)

John Hellermann, Steven L. Thorne and Peter Fodor

Literacy, and particularly reading, is critical to success in schooling and full participation in contemporary societies. As one of the ...

Epilogue: Open Education, Social Practices, and Ecologies of Hope

Steven L. Thorne

For more than a decade, some of the world's top-ranked universities have invited the global public to freely access the ...

Cultures-of-Use and Morphologies of Communicative Action

Language Learning & Technology (2016)

Steven L. Thorne

In this article I revisit the cultures-of-use conceptual framework-that technologies, as forms and processes comprising human culture, mediate and assume ...

Interactional Practices and Artifact Orientation in Mobile Augmented Reality Game ...

PsychNology Journal (2015)

Steven L. Thorne, John Hellermann, Adam Jones and Daniel Lester

In an effort to better understand the ways that small groups use digital technology as they move through a physical ...

Social Media, Fandom and Language Learning: A Roundtable with Shannon ...

Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature (2014)

Dean Wang, Shannon Sauro and Steven L. Thorne

Last November, Dr. Shannon Sauro and Dr. Steven L. Thorne visited the UAB campus to give lectures on, respectively, ‘Fandom, ...

Language at Play: Digital Games in Second and Foreign Language ...

Language Learning & Technology (2013)

Steven L. Thorne and Erin Watters

A review of Language at Play: Digital games in second and foreign language teaching and learning Julie Sykes and Jonathan ...

Language Learning, Ecological Validity, and Innovation under Conditions of Superdiversity

Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature (2013)

Steven L. Thorne

This article describes three pedagogical proposals oriented toward moving language learning to the center of higher education, and further, to ...

Second Language Learners' Contiguous and Discontiguous Multi-Word Unit Use Over ...

The Modern Language Journal (2013)

Aziz Yuldashev, Julieta Fernandez and Steven L. Thorne

Research has described the key role of formulaic language use in both written and spoken communication (Schmitt, 2004; Wray, 2002), ...

The Semiotic Ecology and Linguistic Complexity of an Online Game ...

Steven L. Thorne, Ingrid Fischer and Xiaofei Lu

Multiplayer online games form complex semiotic ecologies that include game-generated texts, player-to-player communication and collaboration, and associated websites that support ...

Digital Games for Language Learning: from Hype to Insight?

ReCall Special Issue (2012)

Frederik Cornillie, Steven L. Thorne and Piet Desmet

Special issue of ReCall topics the concept of ludic engagement as a form of developmentally productive activity specifically digital game-based ...

Online Gaming as Sociable Media

Language Learning and Information Systems and Communication (Alsic) (2012)

Steven L. Thorne

Over much of the world, contemporary communicative practices are mediated by a wide range of digital technologies that support speech, ...

Massively Semiotic Ecologies and L2 Development: Gaming Cases and Issues

The Modern Language Journal (2012)

Steven L. Thorne

In dialectic tension with the immense growth in digital information and communication media, Internet information and communication technologies have amplified ...

New media, new communicative genres and inclusive technology-mediated L2 pedagogy ...

Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature (2011)

Victoria Antoniadou and Steven L. Thorne

Professor Steve Thorne is well-known for his work on second and foreign language development and Internet-mediated communicative activity. He is ...

Community Formation and the World as Its Own Model

Modern Language Journal (2011)

Steven L. Thorne