My primary research interests revolve around situated uses of language in everyday life (e.g., dinner table conversations) and institutional settings (e.g. English oral proficiency exams, classrooms, small group meetings). They concern the intersection of language, social interaction, and language learning and teaching.
Drawing on Conversation Analysis (CA) as an analytic framework, I collect and examine recordings of social interactions and describe systematic conversational patterns that emerge from the detailed analysis of data.
My work has focused on comparing interactional practices found across languages and finding language specific and universal practices. I work with both English and Korean data and have collaborated with researchers working on Japanese. More specifically, it has concentrated on the following areas:
My other research interests are L2 speaking pedagogy and ESL teacher preparation. I'm particularly interested in service learning for pre-service language teachers and its impact on their development as teachers and active members of the community.
Current projects:
Drawing on Conversation Analysis (CA) as an analytic framework, I collect and examine recordings of social interactions and describe systematic conversational patterns that emerge from the detailed analysis of data.
My work has focused on comparing interactional practices found across languages and finding language specific and universal practices. I work with both English and Korean data and have collaborated with researchers working on Japanese. More specifically, it has concentrated on the following areas:
- Designing beginnings and endings of a turn-at-talk (turn-initial and final particles, in particular)
- Designing response beginnings to questions
- Other-initiations of repair
- Grammar in interaction
- Requests
- News receipts
My other research interests are L2 speaking pedagogy and ESL teacher preparation. I'm particularly interested in service learning for pre-service language teachers and its impact on their development as teachers and active members of the community.
Current projects:
- Other-initiations of repair in Korean
- Telephone closings in Korean conversation
- Service learning for MA TESL students
- Preparing ESL teachers for post-secondary institutions
- Talking about their children in first mothers' interaction
- News receipts in Korean