Diane Larsen-Freeman and Lynne Cameron to Receive MLA Prize

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DIANE LARSEN-FREEMAN AND LYNNE CAMERON TO RECEIVE THE MLA'S KENNETH W. MILDENBERGER PRIZE 
FOR COMPLEX SYSTEMS AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS

New York, NY-1 December 2009-The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its twenty-ninth annual Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize to Diane Larsen-Freeman, of the University of Michigan, and Lynne Cameron, of the Open University, for their book Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics, published by Oxford University Press. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding work in the fields of language, culture, literacy, or literature with strong application to the teaching of languages other than English. 

The Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize is one of eighteen awards that will be presented on 28 December 2009 during the association's annual convention, to be held this year in Philadelphia. The members of this year's Mildenberger Prize Selection Committee were Gwendolyn Barnes-Karol (Saint Olaf Coll.); Elizabeth B. Bernhardt (Stanford Univ.); and Diane Birckbichler (Ohio State Univ., Columbus), chair. 

The selection committee's citation for the winning book reads:

Using research from science and mathematics as their point of departure, Diane Larsen-Freeman and Lynne Cameron's Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics presents a comprehensive, surprisingly accessible overview of chaos theory and complex systems as they relate to second-language learning and applied linguistics. Their approach takes SLA research out of the linear scientific research paradigm that has long dominated the field and places it in a dynamic context that attempts to capture the complexities of the many and varied contexts of second-language learning and acquisition. Whether one agrees with the theories and interpretations presented by the authors, the thinking behind the work is innovative, and the scholarship is impressive. The book should stimulate substantial debate as it forces readers to reconsider some cherished beliefs. 

Diane Larsen-Freeman is a professor of education, a professor of linguistics, and a research scientist at the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a distinguished senior faculty fellow at the Graduate SIT Institute in Brattleboro, Vermont. She received her PhD in linguistics from the University of Michigan. She is the author of Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching and Teaching Language: From Grammar to Grammaring and has coauthored The Grammar Book: An ESL/EFL Teacher's Course and An Introduction to Second Language Acquisition Research. She is the editor of Discourse Analysis in Second Language Research, the series director of Grammar Dimensions: Form, Meaning, and Use, and the former editor of Language Learning. She is a member of the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2000, she received the lifetime achievement award from Heinle and Heinle Publishers. In 2009, she was awarded a Fulbright distinguished chair at the University of Innsbruck and received an honorary doctorate from the Hellenic American University in Athens.

Lynne J. Cameron is a professor of applied linguistics at the Centre for Language and Communications, Open University. She received her MA from the University of York and her PhD from the University of London. She was previously affiliated with the University of Leeds. She is the author of Teaching Languages to Young Learners and Metaphor in Educational Discourse and coeditor of Researching and Applying Metaphor and Explorations in Spatiality. She is coauthor of the forthcoming Metaphor Analysis: Research Practice in Applied Linguistics, Social Sciences, and the Humanities and coeditor of the forthcoming Bringing Creative Teaching into the Young Learner Classroom. 

The MLA, the largest and one of the oldest American learned societies in the humanities (est. 1883), promotes the advancement of literary and linguistic studies. The 30,000 members of the association come from all fifty states and the District of Columbia, as well as from Canada, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. PMLA, the flagship journal of the association, has published distinguished scholarly articles for over one hundred years. Approximately 9,500 members of the MLA and its allied and affiliate organizations attend the association's annual convention each December. The MLA is a constituent of the American Council of Learned Societies and the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures.

The Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize was established by the MLA Executive Council in 1979. First presented in 1980, the prize is awarded under the auspices of the MLA's Committee on Honors and Awards. From 1998 to 2002, the prize was awarded in alternate years to an outstanding book and an outstanding article in the field. From 2004 to 2007, the Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize was selected by a committee that also reviewed work for the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize, which is awarded for an outstanding work in the fields of language, culture, literacy, or literature with strong application to the teaching of English.

Previous winners of the Mildenberger Prize are Stephen D. Krashen; John W. Oller; Jr.; Sandra J. Savignon; John Underwood; Jack C. Richards; Alice C. Omaggio; Rod Ellis; Anita Wenden; Craig Chaudron; Bernard Spolsky; Lyle F. Bachman (twice); Elizabeth B. Bernhardt; Evelyn Hatch (twice); Claire Kramsch; David Freeman and Yvonne Freeman; Cheryl Brown; Adrian S. Palmer; Peter Skehan; Richard Clément, Zoltán Dörnyei, Peter MacIntyre, and Kimberly Noels; Guy Cook; Hossein Nassaji and Gordon Wells, Janina Brutt-Griffler; Paul Seedhouse; Cristina Sanz; Penny McKay; and B. Kumaravadivelu. 

Other awards sponsored by the committee are the William Riley Parker Prize; the James Russell Lowell Prize; the MLA Prize for a First Book; the Howard R. Marraro Prize; the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize; the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars; the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize; the Morton N. Cohen Award; the MLA Prizes for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition and for a Distinguished Bibliography; the Lois Roth Award; the William Sanders Scarborough Prize; the Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies; the MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies; and the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prizes for Comparative Literary Studies, for French and Francophone Studies, for Italian Studies, for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures, for a Translation of a Literary Work, for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature, and for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies. 

Kenneth W. Mildenberger (1921-79) devoted his distinguished career to the advancement of the study of foreign languages. He received his PhD in 1951 from New York University and an honorary doctorate of laws from Middlebury College in 1963. He joined the staff of the MLA in 1952 and served as associate secretary and director of the association's Foreign Language Program until 1958. He then moved to Washington, DC, where he served first as assistant chief of the Language Development Section in the United States Office of Education and then as chief until 1961. >From 1962 to 1965 he served as director of the Division of College and University Assistance of the United States Office of Education. After his government service, Mildenberger returned to the MLA as deputy executive secretary and treasurer. During his career at the MLA he was instrumental in the establishment of the Center for Applied Linguistics, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, and the first ERIC Clearinghouse on Foreign Languages. He also directed numerous research projects; edited special publications, and was the founding editor of Foreign Language Annals.

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