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Rebecca Oxford is a well-known speaker in the U.S. and has presented keynote talks on almost all continents. She is the author or editor of numerous books, such as Language Learning Strategies: What Every Teacher Should Know, Language Learning Strategies Around the World: Cross Cultural Perspectives, Language Learning Motivation: Pathways to the New Century, and Patterns of Cultural Identity.

She is the editor of the second edition of the Tapestry Program, a book series for ESL college-age learners and co-edited the first edition. Her articles and book chapters are widely read, and her two surveys, one on learning strategies and the other on learning styles, have been used by other people in dozens of dissertations and published works.

She has been the director of ESL teacher preparation programs at the University of Alabama and at Teachers College, Columbia University and is now the head of TESOL and Foreign Language Education at the University of Maryland. She brings with her a sense of humor and a deep love for students and teachers.

Selected Recent Publications    

            Oxford, R. L. (2001). Sources of variation in language learning. In R. Kaplan (Ed.), Oxford handbook of applied linguistics. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.

            Oxford, R. L. (2001). Language learning styles and strategies. In M. Celce-Murcia (Ed.), Teaching English as a second or foreign language (2^nd Ed.). Boston: Heinle & Heinle/International Thomson.

            Oxford, R. L. (2000). “The bleached bones of a story:” Learners’ constructions of language teachers. In M. Breen (Ed.). London: Addison-Wesley/Longman.

            Oxford, R. L. (2000). Language learning strategies for ESL and EFL: A synthesis of theory and research. In R. Carter & D. Nunan (Eds.), English language teaching handbook. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

            Leaver, B. L., & Oxford, R. L. (2000). Mentoring in style: Using style information to enhance mentoring of foreign language teachers. In B. Rifkin (Ed.), Foreign language program management. Boston: Heinle & Heinle.

            Oxford, R. L. (2000). Communication strategies. In M. Byrum (Ed.), Encyclopedia of language teaching and learning. London: Routledge.

            Kawai, Y., Oxford, R., & Iran-Nejad, A. (2000, Winter & Spring). Sources of internal self-regulation with a focus on language learning. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 21(1,2), 45-60.

Oxford, R. L. (2000). Teaching and researching language learning strategies. London: Addison-Wesley/Longman.