2010 WAESOL Conference Keynote speaker:
Diane Larsen-Freeman

Inspiring Success by Moving beyond Input and Output

Diane Larsen-Freeman (Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Michigan, 1975) is Professor of Education, Professor of Linguistics, and Research Scientist at the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is also a Distinguished Senior Faculty Fellow at the Graduate SIT Institute in Brattleboro, Vermont. Dr. Larsen-Freeman has been a conference speaker in over 60 countries of the world and has published over 100 articles in her areas of interest: second language acquisition, language teacher education, applied linguistics, language teaching methodology, and complexity theory. Her books include: Discourse Analysis in Second Language Research (edited, Newbury House, 1980), The Grammar Book: An ESL/EFL Teacher’s Course (co-authored with Marianne Celce-Murcia, Heinle/Cengage, 1983; 1999), Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching (authored, Oxford University Press, 1986; 2000), An Introduction to Second Language Acquisition Research (co-authored with Michael Long, Longman, 1991), Grammar Dimensions: Form, Meaning, and Use (Series Director, Heinle/Cengage, 1993; 1997; 2000; 2007), Teaching Language: From Grammar to Grammaring (authored, Heinle/Cengage, 2003), and Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics (co-authored with Lynne Cameron, Oxford University Press, 2008). Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics was awarded the 2009 Kenneth W. Mildenberger prize from the Modern Language Association last December. Also, in 2009, she received an honorary doctorate from the Hellenic American University in Athens, Greece. Dr. Larsen-Freeman spent from February to June 2010 in Austria as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of Innsbruck.

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