Books

• Alatis, James. Quest for Quality: The First 21 Years of TESOL. Alexandria, VA: TESOL Publications, 1991.
• Alatis, James, & Twadell, Kristy . English as a Second Language in Bilingual Education. Washington, D.C.: TESOL, 1976.
• Alatis, James. Bilingualism and Language Contact:Anthropological, Linguistic, Psychological and Sociological Aspects, Monograph Series on Languages and Linguistics #23 (Report on the 21st Round Table). Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1970.
• Alatis, James. Contrastive Linguistics and Its Pedagogical Implications, Monograph Series on Languages and Linguistics #21 (Report on the 19th Annual Round Table). Washington, D.C: Georgetown University Press, 1968.

Articles in journals

• Alatis, James. "On English as a World Language." Journal of Applied Linguistics - Greek Applied Linguistics Association 6 (1990).
• Alatis, James. "The Growth of Professionalism in TESOL: Challenges and Prospects for the Future." TESOL Quarterly 21.1 (1987).
• Alatis, James. "Technology is Good, but Humanity is Better." The Journal of Computer Aided Language Learning and Instruction Consortium (CALICO) 3.4 (1986).
• Alatis, James. "The Question of Language Policy." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 60 (1986).
• Alatis, James. "The Application of Instructional Technology." The Journal of Computer Aided Language Learning and Instruction Consortium (CALICO) 1.1 (1983).
• Alatis, James. "The Role of ESL in Bilingual Education." The Journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) 3.3 (1979): 27–37.
• Alatis, James. "Teaching Foreign Languages — Why? A New Look at an Old Question." Foreign Language Annals 9.5 (1976): 447–458.
• Alatis, James. "The Urge to Communicate vs. Resistance to Learning in English as a Second Language." English Language Teaching Journal 30.4 (1976).
• Alatis, James. "The Past as Prologue." TESOL Quarterly 10.1 (1976): 7–18.
• Alatis, James. "Toward a LAPSE Theory of Teacher Preparation in English as a Second Language." English Language Teaching Journal 29.1 (1974).

Articles in books

• Alatis, James. "Teaching Students of English as a Second Language or Dialect: The Unanswered Questions, the Successes, and the Promise." Essays on Teaching English as a Second Language and as a Second Dialect. Ed. Robert P. Fox. Urbana, Illinois : National Council of Teachers of English, 1973: 43–56
• Alatis, James. "Linguistics, TESOL and Bilingual Education." Psycholinguistics and Total Communication: The State of the Art (American Annals of the Deaf). Ed. Terence J. O’Rourke. : TESOL, 1972: 122–34

Book reviews

• Alatis, James. "review of The English-Only Question: An Official Language for Americans? by Dennis Baron." Language 69.4 (1994).

Conference proceedings

• Alatis, James, Brod, Richard, & Gerli, Michael, ed. "Language in American Life:Proceedings of the Georgetown University Modern Language Association Conference." 8 Oct. 1977. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.

Other

• in the Concise Encyclopedia of Educational Linguistics. Bernard Spolsky, ed. Oxford: Elsevier Science Limited, 1999..