Department of German

Books

• Janet Swaffar, Katherine Arens, and Heidi Byrnes. Reading for meaning: An integrated approach to language learning. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1991.
• Heidi Byrnes and Stefan R. Fink. Wendepunkt. Intermediate level college German textbook and workbook. Boston: Heinle and Heinle, 1987.
• Heidi Byrnes. Contempory perceptions of language: Interdisciplinary dimensions. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1982.

Edited books

• Lourdes Ortega, Heidi Byrnes, ed. The longitudinal study of advanced L2 capacities. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2008.
• Heidi Byrnes, Heather Weger-Guntharp, Katherine A. Sprang, ed. Educating for advanced foreign language capacities: Constructs, curriculum, instruction, assessment. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006.
• Heidi Byrnes, ed. Advanced language learning: The contribution of Halliday and Vygotsky. London/New York: Continuum, 2006.
• Heidi Byrnes, Hiram H. Maxim, ed. Advanced foreign language learning: A challenge to college programs. Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 2003.
• Heidi Byrnes, ed. Learning foreign and second languages: Perspectives in research and scholarship. New York: MLA, 1998.
• Heidi Byrnes and Michael Canale, ed. Defining and developing proficiency: Guidelines, implementations and concepts. Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Company, 1986.

Book reviews

• Heidi Byrnes. "Review of James P. Lantolf and Steven L. Thorne: Sociocultural theory and the genesis of second language development." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 30.3 (2008): 394-396.
• Heidi Byrnes. "Review of John M. Norris and Lourdes Ortega, Synthesizing research on language learning." Modern Language Journal 92.1 (2008): 148-150.
• Heidi Byrnes. "Review of Rod Ellis, Planning and task performance in second language." Modern Language Journal 91.2 (2007): 298-299.
• Heidi Byrnes. "Review of Martina Möllering, The acquisition of German modal particles: A corpus-based approach." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 28.1 (2006): 150-152.
• Heidi Byrnes. "Review of Rod Ellils, Task-based language learning and teaching." Modern Language Journal 89.2 (2005).
• Heidi Byrnes. "Review of David Block, The social turn in second language acquisition." The Canadian Modern Language Review 61.3 (2005): 433-436.

Articles in journals

• Heidi Byrnes. "Systemic-functional reflections on instructed foregin language acquisition as meaning-making: An introduction." Linguistics and Education (2009).
• Heidi Byrnes. "Emergent L2 Ge4rman writing ability in a curricular context: A longitudinal study of grammatical metaphor." Linguistics and Education (2009).
• Heidi Byrnes. "Owning up to ownership of foreign language program outcomes assessment." ADFL Bulletin 39.2-3 (2008): 28-30.
• Heidi Byrnes. "What kind of resource is language and why does it matter for German Studies." German Quarterly 81.1 (2008): 8-19.
• Heidi Byrnes. "Articulating a foreign language sequence through content: A look at the Culture Standards." Language Teaching 41.1 (2008): 103-118.
• Heidi Byrnes. "Developing national language education policies: Reflections on the CEFR." Modern Language Journal 91.4 (2007): 678-684.
• Heidi Byrnes, Cori Crane, Hiram H. Maxim, and Katherine A. Sprang. "Taking text to task: Issues and choices in curriculum construction." ITL: International Journal of Applied Linguistics 152 (2006): 85-110.
• Heidi Byrnes. "Literacy as a framework for advanced language acquisition." ADFL Bulletin 37.1 (2005): 85-110.
• Heidi Byrnes. "Advanced L2 literacy: Beyond option or privilege." ADFL Bulletin 36.1 (2004): 52-60.
• Heidi Byrnes. "The cultural turn in foreign language departments: Challenge and opportunity. ." Profession 2002 (2002): 114-129.
• Heidi Byrnes. "The role of task and task-based assessment in a content-oriented collegiate foreign language curriculum. ." Language Testing 19.4 (2002): 425-443.
• Heidi Byrnes, Cori Crane, and Katherine A. Sprang. "Non-native teachers teaching at the advanced level: Challenges and opportunities." ADFL Bulletin 33.3 (2002): 25-44.
• Heidi Byrnes. "Reconsidering graduate students’ education as teachers: It takes a department! ." Modern Language Journal 85.4 (2001): 512-530.
• Heidi Byrnes. "Shaping the discourse of a practice: The role of linguistics and psychology in foreign Language teaching and learning." Modern Language Journal 84.4 (2000): 473-495.

Articles in books

• Peter C. Pfeiffer, Heidi Byrnes. "Learning, and identity of majors: A case study of program outcomes evaluation.." Toward useful program evaluation in college foreign language education. . Ed. John Norris, Castle Sinicrope, and Yukiko Watanabe. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press, Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center, 2009.
• Heidi Byrnes. "Grammatical metaphor as a marker of evolving L2 advancedness: Some conceptual and textual considerations." Empirische Forschung und Theoriebildung. Beiträge aus Soziolinguistik, Gesprochene-Sprache- und Zweitspracherwerbsforschung. Festschrift für Norbert Dittmar zum 65. Geburtstag.. Ed. Bernt Ahrenholz, Ursula Bredel, Wolfgang Klein, Martina Rost-Roth, and Romuald Skiba,. Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang, 2008.
• Lourdes Ortega and Heidi Byrnes. "The longitudinal study of advanced L2 capacities: An introduction." The Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2 Capacities.. Ed. Lourdes Ortega and Heidi Byrnes. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2008.
• Lourdes Ortega and Heidi Byrnes. "Theorizing advancedness, setting up the longitudinal research agenda ." The Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2 Capacities.. Ed. Lourdes Ortega and Heidi Byrnes. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2008.
• Heidi Byrnes and Castle Sinicrope. "Advancedness and the development of relativization in L2 German: A curriculum-based longitudinal study ." The Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2 Capacities.. Ed. Lourdes Ortega and Heidi Byrnes. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2008.
• Heidi Byrnes. "Assessing content and language." Language testing and assessment. Ed. Elana Shohamy. New York/Berlin: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2008.
• Heidi Byrnes. "Language acquisition and language learning." Introduction to scholarship. Ed. David Nicholls. New York: MLA, 2007.
• Heidi Byrnes. "Locating the advanced learner in theory, research, and educational practice. An introduction." Educating for advanced foreign language capacities. Constructs, curriculum, instruction, assessment. Ed. Heidi Byrnes, Heather Weger-Guntharp, and Katherine A. Sprang. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006.
• Heidi Byrnes. "What kind of resource is language and why does it matter for advanced language learning?." Advanced language learning: The contribution of Halliday and Vygotsky. Ed. Heidi Byrnes. London/New York: Continuum, 2006.
• Heidi Byrnes. "A semiotic perspective on culture and foreign language teaching: Implications for collegiate materials development." Language and culture out of bounds: Discipline-blurred perspectives on the foreign language classroom. Ed. Vicki Galloway and Bettina Cothran. Boston: Heinle Thomson, 2006.
• Heidi Byrnes. "Content-based foreign language instruction." MInd and context in adult second language acquisition. Ed. Cristina Sanz. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005.
• Heidi Byrnes. "Toward a comprehensive conceptualization of teaching assistant education: Contents, commitments, structures." Teacher education for second or foreign language contexts: International perspectives on research and practice. Ed. Diane Tedick. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005.
• Heidi Byrnes and Hiram H. Maxim. "Introduction: Creating sites for collegiate advanced foreign language learning." Advanced foreign language learning: A challenge to college programs. Ed. Heidi Byrnes and Hiram H. Maxim. Boston: Heinle Thomson, 2004.
• Heidi Byrnes and Katherine A. Sprang. "Fostering advanced L2 literacy; A genre-based, cognitive approach." Advanced foreign language learning: A challenge to college programs. Ed. Heidi Byrnes and Hiram H. Maxim. Boston: Heinle Thomson, 2004.
• Heidi Byrnes. "Contexts for advanced foreign language learning." Developing professional-level language proficiency. Ed. Betty Lou Leaver and Boris Shekhtman. Cambridge: Cambridge University , 2004.
• Heidi Byrnes. "Toward academic-level foreign language abilities: Reconsidering foundational assumptions, exploring pedagogical options." Developing professional-level language proficiency. Ed. Betty Lou Leaver and Boris Shekhtman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• Heidi Byrnes and Susanne Kord. "Developing literacy and literary competence: Challenges for foreign language departments." SLA and the literature classroom: Fostering dialogues. Ed. Virginia Scott and Holly Tucker. Boston: Heinle and Heinle, 2001.
• Heidi Byrnes. "Meaning and form in classroom-based SLA research: Reflections from a college foreign language perspective." Meaning and form: Multiple perspectives. Ed. James F. Lee and Albert Valdam. Boston: Heinle and Heinle, 1999.
• Heidi Byrnes. "Introduction: Steps to an ecology of foreign language departments." Learning foreign and second languages: Perspectives in research and scholarship. Ed. Heidi Byrnes. New York: MLA, 1998.
• Heidi Byrnes. "Constructing curricula in collegiate foreign language departments." Learning foreign and second languages: Perspectives in research and scholarship. Ed. Heidi Byrnes. New York: MLA, 1998.

Other

• Heidi Byrnes, guest editor. Linguistics and Education, special issue.