College of Education and Human Development

Education

B.A. French Education. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ed.M. Self-designed, Individualized Studies. Harvard University

Ph.D. Curriculum & Instruction, Language & Literacy, with Applied Linguistics option. 

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.

Selected Publications

Burke, B.M.  (2011).  Rituals and beliefs ingrained in world language pedagogy: 
Defining deep structure and conventional wisdom.  Journal of Language Teaching and Research 2(1), 1-12.

https://www.academypublisher.com/~academz3/
ojs/index.php/jltr/article/view/02010112

Burke, B.M.  (2010).  Promoting communication in the target language with and among students. 
The Language Educator 5(5), 50-53.

http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ddbeafee#/ddbeafee/53

Burke, B. M.  (2007).  Creating communicative classrooms with experiential design. 
Foreign Language Annals 40(3), 441-462.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1944-9720.2007.tb02869.x/abstract

Burke, B. M.  (2006).  Theory meets practice: A case study of pre-service world language teachers in U.S. secondary schools.  Foreign Language Annals, 39(1), 148-166. 

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1944-9720.2006.tb02255.x/abstract

Research Interests

World Language Pedagogy

Communicative Language Teaching

Differentiated Instruction

Professional Development

Educational Reform

Social Justice Pedagogy

Expeditionary Learning

Currently Dr. Burke is researching the rituals and beliefs found in secondary world language classrooms.  She is finding that teachers need support when it comes to understanding, interpreting, and implementing communicative methods in classrooms with their students.  She also is beginning work with an undergraduate honor's student examining kindergartners attitude and acquisition abilities when learning French through an exploratory approach. 

Courses

World Language Education: 

World Language pedagogy: EDTL 2290, EDTL 4290, EDTL 4890, FREN 6010/GERM 6700

Curriculum & Teaching: EDTL 6110, EDTL 6530, EDTL 7100, EDTL 6910, EDTL 6800 (Experiential Education)