Paula Winke

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Paula Marie Winke is an American linguist who specializes in the educational assessment and learning of additional languages.

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Education

Winke holds a doctorate in linguistics from Georgetown University, a Master of Arts degree in linguistics from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While at Madison, she resided in the French House and studied abroad at the Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada, and at the Université d'Aix-Marseille in Aix-en-Provence, France. Her doctoral dissertation, "Individual differences in adult Chinese second language acquisition: The relationship among aptitude, memory and strategies for learning," [1] was funded by a U.S. National Science Foundation Linguistics Program Doctoral Dissertation Research grant. Winke collected the data for her dissertation at the U.S. Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Presidio of Monterey in Monterey, CA, under the supervision of John Lett and Gordon L. Jackson. Winke's doctoral dissertation advisor was Alison Mackey.

Career

Winke spent two years as an au-pair for the daughter of Kim Kashkashian while studying German and linguistics at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg before joining the U.S. Peace Corps in 1998. With the Peace Corps, she was an English-teacher trainer at Leshan Normal University (乐山师范学院). After the Peace Corps, Winke worked as a research assistant and test-development project manger at the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington DC. She joined the faculty of Michigan State University in August 2005. [2] [3] Winke directed Michigan State University's Master of Arts in Foreign Language Teaching (MAFLT) program from 2013 to 2016. In 2014, Winke was awarded a Language Proficiency Grant from the Defense Language and National Security Education Office (DLNSEO), which was renewed twice for a total of five years of funding. [4] In 2018, Winke joined an 18-month, ad hoc National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Consensus Committee to evaluate the different approaches that exist to assess foreign language proficiency for the State Department's Foreign Service Institute (FSI). [5] [6] Starting in January 2019, Winke served a five-year term as a co-editor of the journal Language Testing . [3] Winke was named director of second language studies at MSU in 2020, [7] and was appointed to the university's first Arts & Letters Professorship in 2023. [8] [9]

Winke was a visiting scholar and Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck (LFUI) Guest Professor at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, academic year 2024/2025. [10] Winke has been a Fulbright Scholar twice, at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Hungary in 2008 and at the University of Leipzig in Germany in 2020. [11] [12]

Awards

Winke has received numerous awards for outstanding research throughout her career.

References

  1. ↑ "Dissertation Archive". Department of Linguistics. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
  2. ↑ "Paula Winke". Michigan State University College of Arts and Letters. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Winke Named Co-Editor of 'Language Testing' Journal". Michigan State University College of Arts and Letters. 25 September 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ National Academy of Sciences (12 February 2020). "Foreign Language Assessment for the U.S. Foreign Service Institute".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ↑ 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)
  7. ↑ "Paula Winke Named Director of Second Language Studies". Michigan State University College of Arts and Letters. 7 July 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  8. ↑ "Paula Winke Named Inaugural Arts & Letters Professor". Michigan State University College of Arts and Letters. 17 January 2023. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  9. ↑ Michigan State University College of Arts and Letters. "Endowed, Named, and Foundation Chairs & Professors".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ↑ The University of Innsbruck (1 May 2025). "LFUI Guest Professorship: Our Guest: Paula Winke".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ↑ "Paula Winke". Fulbright Scholar Program. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  12. ↑ "Professor to Research Language Assessment as a Fulbright Scholar". Michigan State University College of Arts and Letters. 18 September 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  13. ↑ "CALICO Awards".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ TESOL International Association. "TESOL Award for For Excellence in Research".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL). "Research Article Award".
  18. ↑ Second Language Studies. "TESOL Quarterly Video Abstract Winke et al. (2019)".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  19. ↑ ACTFL Language Connects. "NFMLTA Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in World Language Education".
  20. ↑ 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)
  21. ↑ 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.
  22. ↑ International Language Testing Association. "International Language Testing Association (ILTA) Best Article Award".
  23. ↑ 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.
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