Learning a Foreign Language Beyond the Final Exam

A paper discussing the potential long-term effects of different language teaching practices. The field of Applied Linguistics largely recognizes what's needed are more longitudinal studies, but there are so few of them because it's extremely difficult to do them with something as complex as language. This paper looks at results of longitudinal studies from other domains of learning and makes suggestions as to what we could expect in language based on those.

The Infamous Duck Paper

The first paper I wrote at UCLA -- back when I actually knew how to write and wasn't caught up in this whole "professional writing" thing. A simulated listserv discussion of some of the major names in the applied linguistics field.

Comments: ravi(at)mit(dot)edu