
Anthony Houston
Tony Houston is Associate Professor, Spanish Program Coordinator, and member of the Bryant University Honors Council. He received his PhD in Spanish from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996 with a concentration in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education.
Ph D, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MA, University of Kentucky
BA, University of Kentucky
Houston, A., Managing Depth and Breadth in the Business Spanish Course, Hispania, 2015.
Houston, A., Renaissance Humanism: Obscurantist Impieties, Philo, 2014.
Houston, A., The U.S. Constitution Guarantees Freedom from Religion, Greenhaven Press, 2014.
Houston, A., Friis, Ronald & Tatiana Séeligman. Doble vía: Comunicación en español. Boston: Heinle Cengage, 2012, Pp. 270. $78.95, paper. ISBN 0-49591-509-2, Modern Language Journal, 2013.
Houston, A., Beyond Accreditation: An Assessment Model for University Foreign Language Programs, Regwell Press, 2012.
Houston, A., Affective Structured Input Online: How Authentic Are Learner Responses?, Hispania, 2010.
Houston, A., Retrofitted Materials for WebCT: Guidelines for Authors, Web Designers and Users, CALICO Journal , 2007.
Saint Louis University, T. P.,Houston, A., Mindful Learning and Second Language Acquisition, Academic Exchange Quarterly, 2007.
Houston, A., Communication Strategies in the Foreign Language Classroom, Applied Language Learning , 2006.
Houston, A., Cuaderno de trabajo electrónico to accompany Dos Mundos, 5 Ed. Adapted for WebCT by Joseph Feustle., Hispania, 2006.
, V. B.,, L. M.,, K. G.,Houston, A., Manual de actividades que acompaña Sol y viento: Beginning Spanish, McGraw-Hill, 2005.
Houston, A., Outcomes Assessment for Beginning and Intermediate Spanish: One Program's Process and Results, Foreign Language Annals, 2005.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, V. B.,Houston, A., Contextual Effects in Processing L2 Input Sentences, Spanish Applied Linguistics, 1998.
Houston, A., Sentence Processing in Spanish as a Second Language: A Study of Word Order and Background Knowledge, Cascadilla Press, 1997.
Houston, A., Biocultural Approaches to Honor, Violence, and Romantic Love in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, and Troilus and Cressida, .
Houston, A., Biocultural Perspectives on Honor, Violence, and Romantic Love in Shakespeare, Vernon Press.
Houston, A., Biocultural Perspectives on Romantic Love, Honor, and Violence in Troilus and Cressida, Antony and Cleopatra, and Romeo and Juliet, .
Houston, A., By Sovereignty of Nature: Honor, Power, and Status in Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Philosophy and Literature.
Houston, A.,Hazard, L., Renaissance Humanism and the First-Year Seminar, Italica.
, V. B.,, L. M.,, K. G.,Houston, A., Sol y viento: Beginning Spanish Audio CD Program, 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2012.
Houston, A., Bowles, Melissa A. The Think-Aloud Controversy in Second Language Research. New York: Routledge, 2010, The Modern Language Journal, 2011.
, V. B.,, L. M.,, K. G.,Houston, A., Sol y viento: Beginning Spanish Audio CD Program, 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2009.
, V. B.,, L. M.,, K. G.,Houston, A., Manual de actividades que acompaña Sol y viento: En breve, McGraw-Hill, 2008.
, V. B.,, L. M.,, K. G.,Houston, A., Manual de actividades que acompaña Sol y viento: En breve, McGraw-Hill, 2008.
Saint Louis University, T. P.,Houston, A., Mindfulness and Communicative Language Teaching, Academic Exchange Quarterly, 2007.
Houston, A., Cuaderno de trabajo electrónico to accompany ¿Sabías que...?, 4 Ed. Adapted for WebCT by Joseph Feustle., Hispania, 2005.
Houston, A., WebCT Workbook for ¿Qué te parece? , McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Summer Research Grant, 2021
The Stephen A. Freeman Award, 2017
Summer Research Grant, 2014
Bryant University Research Sabbatical, 2012
Mentor of the Year, 2011
Summer Research Grant, 2007
VOICES Grant, 2004
Melon Grant , 2003
Summer Stipend , 2000
Spanish for business, formal and applied linguistics, education, philosophy, humanism
Formal and applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition and teaching, language classroom discourse, communication strategies, task-based instruction, computer-assisted language learning, international business education, cognition, philosophy, humanism
Northeast Modern Language Association
Rhode Island Foreign Language Association
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese