Paula Winke
Paula Winke | |
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| Doctoral advisor | Alison Mackey |
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| Discipline | Applied linguistics, language assessment |
| Institutions | Michigan State University |
Paula Marie Winke is an American linguist specializing in the educational assessment and learning of additional languages.
Education
Winke holds a doctorate in linguistics from Georgetown University, a Master of Arts in linguistics from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and a Bachelor of Arts in French and philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While at Madison, she lived in the French House[1] and studied abroad at Université Laval in Quebec City and Université d'Aix-Marseille in Aix-en-Provence. Her doctoral dissertation, "Individual differences in adult Chinese second language acquisition: The relationship among aptitude, memory and strategies for learning,"[2] was funded by a U.S. National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research grant. She collected the data at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, California[3] under the supervision of John Lett and Gordon L. Jackson. Her dissertation advisor was Alison Mackey.
Career
Winke spent two years as an au pair for the daughter of Kim Kashkashian and Manfred Eicher while studying German and linguistics at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, then joined the U.S. Peace Corps in 1998. As a volunteer, she trained English teachers at Leshan Normal University (乐山师范学院). After the Peace Corps, she worked as a research assistant and test development project manager at the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington, D.C., and then joined the faculty of Michigan State University in August 2005.[4][5]
Winke directed MSU's Master of Arts in Foreign Language Teaching program[6] from 2013 to 2016. In 2014, she received a Language Proficiency Grant from the Defense Language and National Security Education Office, renewed twice for a total of five years.[7] In 2018, she joined an 18-month National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee evaluating approaches to foreign language proficiency assessment for the State Department's Foreign Service Institute.[8][9] From 2019 to 2024, she served as co-editor of Language Testing.[5] She was named director of second language studies at MSU in 2020[10] and appointed to the university's inaugural Arts & Letters Professorship in 2023.[11][12] In 2024, she was elected treasurer of the American Association for Applied Linguistics.[13]
In 2024–2025, Winke was a visiting scholar and guest professor at the University of Innsbruck.[14][15] She has been a Fulbright Scholar twice: at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2008 and at the University of Leipzig in 2020.[16][17]
Awards
- 2009: Outstanding Article Award, CALICO Journal[18][19]
- 2012: TESOL Award for Distinguished Research, TESOL International Association[20][21]
- 2020: The American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Research Article Award[22][23][24]
- 2021: Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in World Language Education,[25] co-sponsored by the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations (NFMLTA) and The Modern Language Journal[26][27]
- 2025: The International Language Testing Association (ILTA) Best Article Award for a 2023 publication in the field of language testing and assessment[28][29]
References
- ^ https://frit.wisc.edu/french-house/
- ^ "Dissertation Archive". Department of Linguistics. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
- ^ https://www.dliflc.edu/
- ^ "Paula Winke". Michigan State University College of Arts and Letters. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ a b "Winke Named Co-Editor of 'Language Testing' Journal". Michigan State University College of Arts and Letters. 25 September 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ https://maflt.cal.msu.edu/
- ^ Winke, Paula; Gass, Susan M., eds. (2019). "Foreign Language Proficiency in Higher Education". Educational Linguistics. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01006-5. ISSN 1572-0292.
- ^ National Academy of Sciences (12 February 2020). "Foreign Language Assessment for the U.S. Foreign Service Institute".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2020). A Principled Approach to Language Assessment. National Academies Press. doi:10.17226/25748. ISBN 0-309-67549-9.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Paula Winke Named Director of Second Language Studies". Michigan State University College of Arts and Letters. 7 July 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ "Paula Winke Named Inaugural Arts & Letters Professor". Michigan State University College of Arts and Letters. 17 January 2023. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ Michigan State University College of Arts and Letters. "Endowed, Named, and Foundation Chairs & Professors".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "American Association of Applied Linguistics 2024 Election". Retrieved 1 June 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/international-relations-office/staff-mobility/incoming/uibk-guest-professorships/
- ^ The University of Innsbruck (1 May 2025). "LFUI Guest Professorship: Our Guest: Paula Winke".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Paula Winke". Fulbright Scholar Program. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ "Professor to Research Language Assessment as a Fulbright Scholar". Michigan State University College of Arts and Letters. 18 September 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ "CALICO Awards".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Winke, Paula; Goertler, Senta (1 August 2008). "Did We Forget Someone? Students' Computer Access and Literacy for CALL". Language Learning & Technology. 25 (3): 482–509. doi:10.1558/cj.v25i3.482-509.
- ^ TESOL International Association. "TESOL Award for For Excellence in Research".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Winke, Paula (4 January 2012). "Evaluating the Validity of a High-Stakes ESL Test: Why Teachers' Perceptions Matter". TESOL Quarterly. 45 (4): 628–660. doi:10.5054/tq.2011.268063.
- ^ American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL). "Research Article Award".
- ^ Second Language Studies. "TESOL Quarterly Video Abstract Winke et al. (2019)".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Winke, Paula; Lee, Shinhye; Ahn, Jieun Irene; Choi, Ina; Cui, Yaqiong; Yoon, Hyung-Jo. "The cognitive validity of child English language tests: What young language learners and their native-speaking peers can reveal". TESOL Quarterly. 52 (2): 274–303. doi:10.1002/tesq.396 – via Wiley.
- ^ ACTFL Language Connects. "NFMLTA Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in World Language Education".
- ^ ACTFL Language Connects. "ACTFL-NFMLTA/MLJ Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in World Language Education: Presenting the 2021 Award Winners Paula Winke and Xiaowan Zhang".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Zhang, Xiaowan; Winke, Paula; Clark, Shaunna (20 April 2020). "Background Characteristics and Oral Proficiency Development Over Time in Lower-Division College Foreign Language Programs". Language Learning. 70 (3): 807–847. doi:10.1111/lang.12396.
- ^ International Language Testing Association. "International Language Testing Association (ILTA) Best Article Award".
- ^ Winke, Paula; Zhang, Xiaowan; Pierce, Steven (28 April 2022). "A closer look at a marginalized test method: Self-assessment as a measure of speaking proficiency". Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 45 (2): 416–441. doi:10.1017/S0272263122000079 – via Cambridge University Press.