CURRICULUM VITAE

Wynne Wong

Associate Professor of French and Second Language Acquisition
Director of French Basic Language Instruction
The Ohio State University

OFFICE ADDRESS

Department of French & Italian
200 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
Columbus, OH 43210
E-mail: wynnewong@sbcglobal.net
Office Phone: 614-688-8222

EDUCATION

Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2000
Fields: French, Second Language Acquisition Theory and Pedagogy
Dissertation: "The Effects of Textual Enhancement and Simplified Input on L2 Comprehension and Acquisition of Non-Meaningful Grammatical Form"

Certificate in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. May 2000.

M.A.
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. June 1992
Fields: French Language and Literature

B.S.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 1989
Field: Advertising

RECOGNITIONS

Co-recipient of the 2005 Stephen A. Freeman Award for Best Published Article on Language Teaching Technique given by the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages for the article "The evidence is IN: Drills are OUT" (Foreign Language Annals, 2003).

AREAS OF RESEARCH
Principal areas of research are (1) the role of attention in Second Language Acquisition (SLA); (2) the effects of formal instruction on SLA and by extension (3) the development of classroom instruction that is psycholinguistically motivated (e.g., input enhancement, processing instruction, textual enhancement). One of my research goals is to build bridges between the disciplines of second language acquisition theory and language instruction. I also have an strong interest in Québécois cultural studies and a renowned passion for la chanson québécoise. I am dedicated to all research endeavors that contribute to the promotion of Québécois culture.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Associate Professor of French and Second Language Acquisition
Director of French Basic Language Instruction
Department of French & Italian, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, October 2005 – present.

Assistant Professor of French and Second Language Acquisition
Director of French Basic Language Instruction
Department of French & Italian, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, August 2000-September 2005.

Graduate Teaching Assistant of French
Department of French, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994-2000.

Lecturer, English as a Foreign Language
Ecole des langues vivantes at Université Laval. Quebec, 1996-1997; 1998-1999.

Instructor, English as a Second Language
Malcolm X College, Chicago, Illinois, 1996.

Instructor, English as a Second Language
Chinese Christian Union Church, Chicago, Illinois, 1995.

Graduate Teaching Assistant of French
Department of Romance Languages, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 1990-1992.

PUBLICATIONS

Articles in Refereed Journals
Wong, W., & Simard, D. (2001). La saisie: Cette grande oubliée! La Revue AILE (Acquisition et  Interaction en Langues étrangères),14, 59‑86.

Wong, W. (2001). Modality and attention to meaning and form in the input. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 23, 345-368.

Simard, D., & Wong, W. (2001). Alertness, orientation and detection: The conceptualization of attentional functions in SLA. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 23, 103-124.

Wong, W. (2002). Linking form and meaning: Processing Instruction. The French Review, 76, 236-264.

Wong, W. (2003). Textual enhancement and simplified input: Effects on L2 comprehension and acquisition of non-meaningful grammatical form. Applied Language Learning, 13, 109-132.

Wong, W. & VanPatten, B. (2003).  The Evidence is IN: Drills are OUT. Foreign Language Annals, 36, 403-423.

Wong, W., & VanPatten, B. (2004). Beyond experience and belief (or, Waiting for the evidence): A reply to Leaver et al.'s "Apples and Oranges." Foreign Language Annals, 37, 133-142.

Simard, D. & Wong, W.  (2004). Language awareness and its multiple possibilities for the L2 classroom. Foreign Language Annals, 37, 96-110.

Wong, W. (2009). Améliorer l'attention des apprenants L2 grâce à la mise en evidence textuelle: données provenant d'une étude sur le suivi du regard. Réflexions, 28, 19-20.

Refereed Book Chapters
Wong, W. (2004). The nature of processing instruction. In B. VanPatten (Ed.), Processing instruction: Theory, research, and commentary (pp. 33-63). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Wong, W. (2004). Processing instruction in French: The roles of explicit information and structured input. In B. VanPatten (Ed.), Processing instruction: Theory, research, and commentary (pp. 183-205). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

VanPatten, B. & Wong, W. (2004). Processing instruction and the faire causatif in French: A replication.  In B. VanPatten (Ed.), Processing Instruction: Theory, research and commentary (pp. 97-118). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Wong, W. (2007). Processing instruction as input enhancement. In. C. Gascoigne (Ed.), Assessing the impact of input enhancement is second language education (pp. 89-106). Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press.

Wong, W. (2008). Rethinking a focus on grammar – From Drills to Processing Instruction (Structured Input) and meaningful output: Data from the French subjunctive. In J. Watzinger-Tharp and S. Katz (eds), Conceptions of L2 Grammar: Theoretical Approaches and their Application in the L2 Classroo (pp. 72-92). AAUSC Volume 2008. Boston: Heinle Cengage Learning.

Wong, W. (in press). The effects of discourse level SI activities on the French Causative. In J. F. Lee and A. Benati (eds), Processing Instruction and discourse level input. Continuum Press.

Wong, W. (2010). The effects of discourse level SI activities on the French Causative. In J. F. Lee and A. Benati (eds), Processing Instruction and discourse level input. Continuum Press.

Books
Wong. W. (2005). Input enhancement: From Theory and Research to the Classroom. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Benati, A., VanPatten, B. & Wong, W. (2005). L'Approccio processing instruction: tra teoria e sperimentazione nell'acquisionze dell'italiano come lingua straniera. Roma: Armando.

Textbooks
Wong, W., Weber-Fève, S., Ousselin, E. & VanPatten, B. (forthcoming). Liaisons: An introduction to French. Boston: Heinle Cengage Learning.

Book Reviews
Wong, W. (2002). [Review of the book New perspectives on grammar teaching in second language classrooms]. Language Awareness, 11, 295-298.

Wong, W. (2007). [Review of the book Introducing Second Language Acquisition (Saville-Troike, M., Cambridge, 2006]. The French Review, 80, 697-698.

Special Materials
Student quizzes and activities for Chapters 1-7 for "Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen (2nd Ed)" (Lee & VanPatten). New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003.

Other Publications
W. Wong. "Performer of la chanson québécoise is passionate defender of French in Quebec"(Fall, 1998, The French Connection, p. 4).

W. Wong. "Richard Séguin: Canadian Separatist Finds Answers in Music" (October 10, 1997, The Octopus, p. 12).

PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES

Papers Delivered: international and national

"The Effects of Sentence-Writing on L2 French and L2 Korean Lexical Acquisition."
Oct. 29-Nov 1, 2009. Annual Meeting of the Second Language Research Forum, East Lansing, MI.

"Grammar instruction in French and TA training/teacher preparation."
July 2-5, 2009. Annual Convention of the American Association of Teachers of French, San Jose, CA.

"Investigating the Effects of Input- and Output-Oriented Enhancement Tasks: Structured Input Reading Activities and Text Reconstruction."
May 21-24, 2009, Texas Tech University's Conference on Second Language Processing and Parsing: State of the Science, Lubbock, TX (Invited Colloquium).

"Enhancing L2 French Learners Attention to Prepositions: An Online Study of Textual Enhancement."
June 19-20, 2008, Colloquium on Bilingualism in a Plurilingual Canada: Research and Implications, Ottawa, Canada (Invited Speaker).

"Eye Movement Patterns in Intermediate L2 French Readers."
March 29-April 1, 2008, Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Washington DC.

"Enhancing the Learner's Attention: An Online Study of Textual Enhancement."
April 21-24, 2007, Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Costa Mesa, CA.

"Enseigner la grammaire à travers le Processing Instruction."
June 17-20, 2006, Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Montreal, Canada (Invited symposium).

"Grammar without Drills!"
March 30-April 2, 2006, Annual Meeting of the Northeast Conference for the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York, New York.

"Grammar Instruction as Structured Input: An Alternative to Drills for the French Classroom."
July 7-10, 2005, Annual Meeting of the American Association for Teachers of French, Quebec City, Canada.

"Structured Input: An Alternative to Drills."
November 19-21, 2004, Annual Meeting of the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Chicago, Illinois.

"Processing Instruction: An Alternative to Drills."
November 21-23, 2003, Annual Meeting of the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

"Decreasing Attentional Demands in Input Processing: A Textual Enhancement Study"
October (2002), Annual Meeting of the Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Toronto, Canada.

"Recent Research on Processing Instruction: Data from French"
April 2002, Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Salt Lake City, Utah.

"The Role of Explicit Information in Processing Instruction: Data from French"
February 2002, University of Illinois at Chicago Conference on Form-Meaning Connections in SLA, Chicago, Illinois.

"Structured Input: Grammar for the Communicative Language Classroom"
April 2001, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky.

"Testing the limits of Processing Instruction: A Study with the  faire causatif in French" (with B. VanPatten)
February 2001, Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, St. Louis, Missouri.

"La mise en évidence de l'input: Théorie et pratique dans les classes de langue seconde"
July 2000, 20th Annual Meeting of the Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes, Paris, France.

"Textual enhancement research: Theoretical implications and empirical evidence" (colloquium  presentation)
March 2000, Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Vancouver, Canada.

"Modality and attention to meaning and form in the input"
November 17, 1999, Second Language Acquisition Teacher Education Colloquium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

"Modality and attention to meaning and form in the input: A partial replication of VanPatten (1990) in EFL"
June 1999, Annual meeting of the Canadian Association for Applied Linguistics, Sherbrooke, Quebec.

"La mise en évidence de l'input dans la classe de langue seconde" (in collaboration with D. Simard)
June 1999, Annual meeting of the Canadian Association for Applied Linguistics, Sherbrooke, Quebec.

"La vigilance, l'orientation et la detection: Une revue critique du rôle de l'attention en acquisition des langues secondes" (in collaboration with D. Simard)
June 1999, Groupes de recherches en didactique des langues (GREDIL), Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec.

"La modalité et l'attention portées à la forme et au sens de l'input"
March 1999, Thirteenth Annual meeting of Les journées de linguistique, Quebec City, Quebec.

"L'effet de la mise en évidence de l'input et de la simplification de l'input sur l'apprentissage des verbes <<savoir>> et <<connaître>> chez les apprenants de français langue étrangère"
December 1998, Groupes de recherches en didactique des langues (GREDIL), Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec.

"The Effects of Input Enhancement and Input Simplification on Adult French Learners' Processing of savoir and connaître"
June 1998, Fourth Bi-annual meeting of the International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness, Quebec City, Quebec.

"Zola et le Naturalisme dans l'univers romanesque de Gabrielle Roy"
September 1997, Annual meeting of the Association internationale pour Zola et le Naturalisme (AIZEN), New York, NY.

"La chanson québécoise: Voix immortelle d'un peuple"
March 1996, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Interdisciplinary Conference on French Studies, Urbana, IL.


Invited Talks

"Using Movies and Videos as Input in Communicative Language Teaching"
February 13, 2010, The Changing Landscape of Language Teaching (Heinle-Cengage), University of Akron, Akron, OH.

Quentin Johnson Memorial Lecture Series – "Input Enhancement: Theory, Research, and Classroom Practice."
October 24, 2007. Iowa State University, Ames, IA.

Invited 6-Hour Workshop – "Drawing Learners' Attention to Grammatical Form: Input Enhancement."
February 17, 2007, Northeast Ohio Language Alliance (NEOLA), Walsh University, Canton, OH.

Invited Keynote Talk - "Structured Input: Grammar Activities for the Foreign Language Classroom."
June 22-24, 2006, Annual Meeting of the American Association for Teachers of Korean, Princeton/Rutgers University.

"Input Enhancement: From Theory and Research to the Classroom"
October 22, 2004. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

"Textual Enhancement: Research and Application"
October 2001, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

GRANTS
Seed Grant awarded by the College of Humanities at The Ohio State University for the project "Enhancing the Learner's Attention: An Online Study of Textual Enhancement," March 2006 (Amount: $5070.00)

Grant awarded by The Ministry of International Relations to develop a course on Quebec culture, June 2002 (Amount: $1600.00)

EDITORSHIPS
Managing Editor for the journal the French Review, published by the American Association of Teachers of French (April 2007 - present)

Review Editor of Course Materials and Methodology for the journal the French Review, published by the American Association of Teachers of French (2003-2007).

ADMININSTRATIVE AND SUPERVISING EXPERIENCE

Director of French Basic Language Instruction
Department of French & Italian, The Ohio State University, August 2000 – present.

Course Supervisor and Coordinator for second- and third-semester French
Department of French, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999-2000.

Second Language Acquisition Teacher Education (SLATE) Colloquium Organizer
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996 and 1999
Responsibilities: planned, organized and invited speakers for the Second Language Acquisition Teacher Education Series talks.

Impresario and Project Supervisor
Les Productions Arc en Ciel, Quebec; Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana; French Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997.
Responsibilities: prepared press packet for Félix Award winner, Richard Séguin, booked performances, oversaw publicity and travel arrangements for the artist and his entourage, assisted the artist in planning his shows, planned program for the artist's visit to the U.S., organized symposium on la chanson québécoise.

COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate

Graduate Seminars

Continuing Education

DISSERTATION COMMITTEES

Kelly Kidder, Ph.D. candidate in Education at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. (2004-present)

Elizabeth Appleby, Ph.D. candidate in French at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. (2003-2005)

Claudia Fernandez, Ph.D. candidate in second language acquisition at The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. (2004-2005)

Lily Hsieh, Ph.D. candidate in music at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. (2001-present)

Stacey Weber-Fève, Ph.D. candidate in French at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. (2003-2004)

SENIOR HONORS THESES COMMITTEES

Michael Bierschenk (B.A. 2004, OSU). "Je m'appelle Robert But You Can Call Me Bob: A linguistic analysis of the music of ‘Jean Leloup' and ‘Les Cowboys Fringants'."

TEACHER EDUCATION

Director of French Basic Language Program and TA Educator
Department of French & Italian, The Ohio State University, August 2000 – present.

Workshop Leader ("Grammar without Drills!")
Annual Meeting of the Northeast Conference for the Teaching of Foreign Languages, March 30-April 2, 2006.

Workshop Leader ("Structured Input Activities: An Alternative to Drills")
Annual Meeting of the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages, November 2003 & 2004.

Workshop Leader
Graduate Teaching Associates Training Workshop, The Foreign Language Center, The Ohio State University, September 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005.

Course Supervisor and TA Educator
Department of French, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999-2000.

Workshop Leader for Language Teaching Training
Pui Tak Center, Chicago, Illinois, 1996.

SERVICE AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Member of the Executive Council of the American Association of Teachers of French, 2007-present.

Grant Proposal Reviewer for National Science Foundation, 2005.

External Manuscript Reviewer for the journal Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2006, 2007.

External Manuscript Reviewer for the journal, Applied Linguistics, 2007.

External Manuscript Reviewer for the journal Canadian Modern Language Review, 2006, 2007, 2008.

External Manuscript Reviewer for the journal Language Learning, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008.

External Manuscript Reviewer for the International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2002.

External Manuscript Reviewer for the journal Spanish Applied Linguistics, 2002.

External Manuscript Reviewer for the journal Hispania, 2008.

External Book Proposal Reviewer for Lawrence Earlbaum, 2002.

Textbook Reviewer for Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

Textbook Reviewer for Heinle & Heinle, 2002.

Textbook Reviewer for Prentice Hall, 2003, 2007.

Textbook Reviewer for John Wiley, 2003, 2004.

Abstract reviewer for The University of Illinois Conference on Form-Meaning Connection in SLA, 2001.

Abstract reviewer for SLRF conference, 2007.

Abstract reviewer for AAAL 2008 conference.

Undergraduate Committee, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2002-present.

Graduate Student Admissions Committee, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2000-present.

Lectures and Special Events Committee, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2000-2002.

Conference organizer for Quebec Conference, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2000-present.

EXPERIENCE ABROAD

Research

Conducted empirical research in Quebec City, Quebec, 2003.

Visiting scholar at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 1999.

Pursued research for dissertation project at the Université Laval in Quebec City, Quebec, 1998-1999.

Conducted independent research on la chanson québécoise in Quebec, 1996-1997.

Study

Certificate in French as a Second Language, Université Laval, Quebec, 1992-1993.

French Immersion Program, Université Laval, Summer 1990 and 1991.

Program in France (Wheaton College). Centre d'études Linguistiques d'Avignon, 1989.

TRANSLATION EXPERIENCE

La Faculté de médecine, Université Laval, Quebec, 1999
Responsibilities: translated course descriptions, program of study catalog and program evaluations from French to English for the College of Medicine.

La Maison littéraire, Quebec, 1998-1999
Responsibilities: translated brochure for dental clinic and insurance representative training documents from French to English.

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 1997
Responsibilities: translated press packets from French to English, interpreted for French performers at the Krannert Center.

LANGUAGES

English: Native speaker
Chinese: Native speaker
French: Near-native speaker
Italian: Low-intermediate level (speaking, reading, writing and listening)
Spanish: Beginner (speaking, reading, writing and listening)