Peter B. Swanson

Peter B. Swanson is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Foreign Language Education at Georgia State University and serves as the Coordinator for the Foreign Language Teacher Education program. He teaches courses on pedagogy, second language acquisition, and technology integration at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Prior to joining the professoriate, Dr. Swanson taught Spanish for 15 years in the Rocky Mountains. While working as a public school educator, his interest in methods to increase student achievement and proficiency in a second language led him to research best practices in the measurement of students’ oral/aural proficiency. As a faculty member of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, he has established a cogent line of research focusing on the integration of technology into instruction as well as foreign language teacher recruitment and retention. He is the author of several books and numerous articles in highly-respected national and international journals.

Publications

Measuring Language Learners’ Speaking Proficiency in a Second Language Using Economical Digital Tools
Measuring Language Learners’ Speaking Proficiency in a Second Language Using Economical Digital Tools
Peter B. Swanson. © 2013. 21 pages.
Rising costs, combined with an increasing lack of flexibility of commercial course management technology tools such as uLearn and Blackboard, have prompted educators to consider...
What Audacity!: Decreasing Student Anxiety while Increasing Instructional Time
What Audacity!: Decreasing Student Anxiety while Increasing Instructional Time
Peter B. Swanson, Patricia N. Early, Quintina Baumann. © 2011. 19 pages.
Promoting student engagement in the second language classroom can be difficult for teachers. Multiple obstacles such as perceptions of the irrelevance of authentic language...
Improving Second Language Speaking Proficiency via Interactional Feedback
Improving Second Language Speaking Proficiency via Interactional Feedback
Peter B. Swanson, Carmen Schlig. © 2010. 14 pages.
Researchers have suggested that interactional feedback is associated with foreign/second language learning because it prompts learners to notice foreign/second language forms....