Peter Swanson

Peter B. Swanson is an Associate Professor of Foreign Language Education at Georgia State University. He is the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and also serves as the Director of the Foreign Language Teacher Preparation Program. His two strands of research focus on (1) the assessment and the integration of technology into instruction and (2) the recruitment and retention of language teachers. He has authored dozens of publications, and his latest book, Identifying and recruiting language teachers: A research-based approach advances an empirical approach to determining the personality patterns of language teachers and methods for recruiting such talented individuals into the profession.

Publications

Engaging Language Learners through Technology Integration: Theory, Applications, and Outcomes
Engaging Language Learners through Technology Integration: Theory, Applications, and Outcomes
Shuai Li, Peter Swanson. © 2014. 368 pages.
Web 2.0 technologies, open source software platforms, and mobile applications have transformed teaching and learning of second and foreign languages. Language teaching has...