UNC School of Education

Professor of Foreign Language Education and English as a Second Language

T 919.962.3035
F 919.962.1533
ahb@email.unc.edu

219 Peabody Hall
CB 3500

Audrey L. Heining-Boynton is a professor of foreign language education and English as a second language. She has authored or co-authored textbooks, including the the middle school and high school Spanish program ¡En español!, the college Spanish program ¡Atrévete! and the elementary school content-based science text ¡Anímate!. Her research has been published widely in journals such as Modern Language Journal, Foreign Language Annals and Central States Reports, and she has delivered more than 200 papers, workshops and speeches nationally and internationally. She received nearly $4 million in grant funding to assist with the creation of foreign and second language programs in North and South Carolina, and with a goal to raise end-of-course reading and math test scores for nearly 2,000 limited English-proficient students, trained more than 200 classroom teachers under her leadership.

During the 2005 Year of Languages, Heining-Boynton served as president of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). She has also been president of the National Network for Early Language Learning, a vice president of the Michigan Foreign Language Association and a board member of the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina. Additionally, she served as the Foreign Language in the Elementary School (FLES) committee chair for the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) and was an elected executive council member of ACTFL. Heining-Boynton won the 2003 ACTFL Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education, the 2005 Foreign Language of North Carolina (FLANC) Teacher of the Year Award and the 2004 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ACCESS Award for Excellence in Working with LD and ADHD Students.

• Ph.D. 1987 - Michigan State University, Curriculum and Instruction.
• M.A. 1978 - Ohio State University, Foreign Language Education
• B.S. 1972 - Ohio State University, Foreign Language Education

• Foreign and Second Language Education
• Teacher Education
• At-Risk Learners
• Foreign Language in the Elementary School
• Research Overview

• Foreign/Second Language Education

• 2004, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Access Award for Exceptional Support and Understanding in their work with learning disabled students
• 2003, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language (ACTFL) -New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers (NYSAFLT) Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education
• 2003, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language (ACTFL) Emma Birkmaier Award for Doctoral Research to Graduate Student Insil Chang
• 2003, Phi Delta Kappa Dissertation Award (NC Chapter) to Graduate Student Insil Chang
• 2003, Best of Foreign Language Association of North Carolina (FLANC) Presentation

• 2001-2004, U.S. Department of Education OBEMLA, Bilingual Education: Teachers & Personnel Grants, "Consortium for South and North Carolina." $827,468.00 Project Director
  
• 2000-2003, U.S. Department of Education OBEMLA, Bilingual Education: Program Development and Implementation, "Carolina Academic Literacy Project." $573,468.00 Project Director
  
• 1999-2002, U.S. Department of Education OBEMLA, Bilingual Education: Training for All Teachers, "Carolina ESL Academic Consortium Project." $873,468.00 Project Director
  
• 1999-2004, U.S. Department of Education OBEMLA, Bilingual Education: Teachers & Personnel Grants, "Carolina ESL Academic Consortium Project." $1,455,780.00 Project Director

• 2005-2006, President, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
• 2004-2005, President Elect, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
• 2002-present, Committee Chair, Project Calling All Future Educators CAFE, Ad
  Hoc Recruitment and Retention Committee of Foreign Language Association of North Carolina
• 1998-2001, Board Member, American Council for Teachers of Foreign Language
• 1998-2001, Committee Chair, By-Laws, National Network for Early Language Learning
• 1997-2001, Chair of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese National FLES Committee

Gahala, Estella, Patricia Hamilton Carlin, Audrey L. Heining-Boynton, Ricardo Otheguy and Barbara J. Rupert. ¡En español! 1a, 1b, 1, 2, 3 McDougal Littell, Evanston, IL, 2000, 2004.

Heining-Boynton, A.L., G. Cowell, and S. Torres-Quiñones. ¡Atrévete! Holt Rinehart Winston, Ft. Worth, TX, 1999. 335 pages.

Heining-Boynton, A.L. "Los efectos de la presencia de minorías culturales en las escuelas públicas de Estados Unidos: Un reportaje longitudinal." Revista Española de Educación Comparada. Sociedad, educación e identidad cultural. Número 8, 2002, pp. 31-40.

Quach. L. and A.L. Heining-Boynton. "Best Practices for the 21st Century: English as a Second Language." In Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century: Wise Practices. Editor Barbara Day. North Carolina Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, NCASCD, Greensboro, NC 2000 pp. 47-52.

Heining-Boynton, A.L. "FLES Under a Microscope." In Central States Reports, Editor Emily Spinelli. Lincolnwood, IL, National Textbook Company. 1996 pp. 84-98.

Heining-Boynton, A.L. and F. Jackson. "Dual Practicum Placements in the Foreign Language Teacher Training Curriculum." In Central States Reports. Ed. Gale Crouse. Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Company. 1995. pp. 139-160.

Heining-Boynton, A.L. "The At-Risk Student in the Foreign Language Classroom." In Central States Reports. Ed. Gale Crouse. Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Company. 1994. pp. 21-38

Heining-Boynton, A.L. "Using FLES History to Plan for the Present and Future." Foreign Language Annals. Vol. 23, 1990. pp. 503-509.

Heining-Boynton, A.L. "The Development and Testing of the FLES Program Evaluation Inventory (FPEI)." The Modern Language Journal. Vol. 74, 1990. pp. 432-39.