Charlene Polio

Charlene Polio (born 1961) is an

Polio was the co-editor of The Modern Language Journal. She is co-editor of TESOL Quarterly along with Peter De Costa.^[3][4]

Since April 2018 she has been a member-at-large of the American Association for Applied Linguistics.^[5]

Research

Polio's research focuses on second language writing with a special focus on language complexity. She is noted for her research synthesis on accuracy measures, published in Language Learning in 1997. She identified three different types of accuracy measures: (1) holistic scores, (2) error-free units, and (3) error counts.^[6]

Bibliography

Books

• Mackey, A., & Polio, C. (Eds.) (2009). Multiple perspectives on interaction: second language research in honor of Susan M. Gass . London: Routledge.
• Polio, C. G., & Friedman, D. A. (2017). Understanding, Evaluating, and Conducting Second Language Writing Research. Routledge.
  ISBN 978-1138814684
• Zyzik, E. & Polio, C. (2017). Authentic materials myths: Applying second language research to classroom teaching. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

• Polio, C. G., & Duff P. A. (1994). Teachers' language use in university foreign language classrooms: A qualitative analysis of English and target language alternation. The Modern Language Journal, 78(3), 313-326.[1]
• Duff P. A., & Polio C. G. (1990). How Much Foreign Language Is There in the Foreign Language Classroom? The Modern Language Journal, 74(2), 154-166.[2]
• Polio, C. G. (1997). Measures of linguistic accuracy in second language writing research. Language Learning, 47(1), 101-143.[3]

References