Honorable Mention for Top Book in Second Language Learning and Teaching

I’m delighted that a book to which I contributed was named Honorable Mention for the Mildenberger Prize, an award given by the MLA for the top book in second language learning and teaching. The book, Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching: The Rise of a New
Knowledge Ecology, was co-edited by Carl S. Blyth, associate professor of French linguistics at the University of Texas, Austin, and Joshua J. Thoms, professor of applied linguistics and Spanish at Utah State University. The prize is awarded for an outstanding work in the fields of language, culture, literacy, and literature with strong application to the teaching of languages other than English.

The committee’s citation for the honorable mention reads:

Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching: The Rise of a New
Knowledge Ecology operationalizes the open educational movement in the context of
language teaching and learning. A historical overview of the movement is supplemented
with a thorough exploration of the new knowledge ecologies it produces, particularly in
the world of language education in and beyond the classroom context. By combining
theory and practice with examples for a range of different languages, Carl S. Blyth and
Joshua J. Thoms’s book is relevant across many fields and for researchers as well as
educators.

I co-authored a chapter with Carl Blyth called, “Towards a Pedagogy of Openness: Bridging English-language and foreign-language Digital Humanities.” The book was released as open access and can be downloaded for free from here: https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?k=9781800411005

The prize went to Leaver, Davidson & Campbell (eds) for Transformative language Learning and Teaching (Cambridge U Press). Read the full press release here: Krebs, Paula M. BETTY LOU LEAVER, DAN E. DAVIDSON, AND CHRISTINE CAMPBELL TO RECEIVE THE MLA’S KENNETH W. MILDENBERGER PRIZE FOR TRANSFORMATIVE LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING; CARL S. BLYTH AND JOSHUA J. THOMS TO RECEIVE HONORABLE MENTION. Modern Language Association, 6 Dec. 2023, )