Research & Publications

Nguyen, H. t. & Malabarba, T. (forthcoming). Learning ‘on the shop floor’: The development of interactional competence at the workplace by users of English as a foreign language. Routledge.

Nguyen, H. t. & Malabarba, T. (Eds.). (2019). Conversation analytic perspectives on English language learning, teaching and testing. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Roever, C. & Nguyen, H. t. (Eds.). (2013). Pragmatics of Vietnamese as native and target language. National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawai‘i.

Nguyen, H. t. (2012). Developing interactional competence: A conversation-analytic study of patient consultations in pharmacy. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Kasper, G., Nguyen, H. t., Yoshimi, D., & Yoshioka, J. (Eds.). (2010). Pragmatics and language learning vol. 12. Honolulu, HI: National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawai‘i Press.

Nguyen, H. t. & Kasper, G. (Eds.) (2009). Talk in interaction: Multilingual perspectives. Honolulu, HI: National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawai‘i Press.

Bonch-Bruevich, X., Crawford, W., Hellermann, J., Higgins, C., & Nguyen, H. (Eds.) (2001) The Past, Present, and Future of Second Language Research: Selected Proceedings of the 2000 Second Language Research Forum. Cascadilla Press.

Nguyen, H. t. & Nguyen, M. T. T. (2022). Conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis. In K. Geeslin K. (Ed) The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics (pp. 261-273). Routledge.

Nguyen, H. t. (2020). Turn-design as longitudinal achievement: Learning on the shop floor. In J. Hellermann, S. W. Eskildsen, & S. Pekarek-Doehler (Eds.), Conversation analytic research on learning-in-action: The complex ecology of second language interaction ‘in the wild’. Springer.

Ho, H. M. & Nguyen, H. t. (2020). English as a lingua franca for Vietnam: Current issues and future directions. In C. V. Le, H. T. M. Nguyen, M. T. T. Nguyen, R. Barnard (Eds.) Building teacher capacity in English language teaching in Vietnam: Research, policy, and practice. London & New York: Routledge.

Nguyen, H. t. (2019). Deepening roots and broadening horizons in interactional competence research and praxis. In S. Kunitz & M. R. Salaberry (Eds.) Teaching and testing L2 interactional competence: Bridging theory and practice (pp. 397-412). New York & London: Routledge.

Nguyen, H. t. (2019). Developing interactional competence in a lingua franca at the workplace: An ethnomethodologically endogenous account. In H. t. Nguyen & T. Malabarba (Eds.) Conversation analytic perspectives on English language learning, teaching and testing (pp. 59-84). Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Malabarba, T. & Nguyen, H. (2019). Using conversation analysis to understand the realities of English-as-a-Foreign-Language learning, teaching, and testing. In H. thi Nguyen & T. Malabarba (Eds.), Conversation analytic perspectives on English language learning, teaching, and testing in global contexts (pp. 1-27). Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Mori, J. & Nguyen, H. t. (2019). Conversation analysis in L2 pragmatics research. Routledge Handbook of Second Language Learning & Pragmatics. Routledge.

Nguyen, H. t. (2018). A longitudinal perspective on turn design: From role-plays to workplace patient consultations. In S. Pekarek Doehler, J. Wagner E., & González-Martínez (Eds.), Documenting change across time: Longitudinal studies on the organization of social interaction. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave-MacMillan.

Nguyen, H. t., Vicentini, C., & Langevin, C. (2018). A microanalysis of text's interactional functions in text-and-voice SCMC chat for language learning (pp. 30-56). In B. Zou & M. Thomas (Eds.)  Handbook of Research on Integrating Technology IntoContemporary Language Learning and Teaching. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Nguyen, H. t. (2017). Toward a conversation analytic framework for tracking interactional competence development from school to work. In S. Pekarek Doehler, A. Bangerter, G. Weck, L.Filliettaz, E. González-Martínez and C. Petitjean (Eds.) Interactional competences in institutional settings: From school to the workplace. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Nguyen, H. t. & Mackens, M. (2014). Factors affecting the production of Vietnamese tones: A study of American learners (Reprint of 2008 journal publication) in R. Bayley & R. Cameron (Eds.) Language variation and change. Volume V: Extensions and applications of sociolinguistics (Critical concepts in linguistics series). London, UK: Routledge.

Nguyen, H. t. (2013). Inviting in Vietnamese, with comparison to some English patterns. In Roever, C. & Nguyen, H. t. (Eds.) Pragmatics of Vietnamese as a native and target language (pp. 177-211). National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawai‘i.

Roever, C. & Nguyen, H. t. (2013). Introduction. In Roever, C. & Nguyen, H. t. (Eds.) Pragmatics of Vietnamese as a native and target language (pp. 1-12). National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawai‘i.

Nguyen, H. t. (2013). Institutional pragmatics. In C. A. Chapelle (Ed.) The encyclopedia of applied linguistics. Malden, MA: Wily-Blackwell.

Nguyen, H. t. (2011). Achieving recipient-design longitudinally: Evidence from a pharmacy intern in patient consultations. In J. K. Hall, J. Hellermann, & S. Pekarek (Eds.) L2 Interactional competence and development (pp. 173-205). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Nguyen, H. t. (2011) A longitudinal microanalysis of a second language learner’s participation. In G. Palotti & J. Wagner (Eds.) L2 Learning as social practice: Conversation-analytic perspectives (pp. 17-44). Honolulu, HI: National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawai‘i Press.

Nguyen, H. t., Noji, F., & Kellogg, G. (2009). Students’ identity construction in a content-based instruction program: Perspectives from a community college classroom. In K. M. Bailey & M. G. Santos (Eds.) Research on English as a second language in US community colleges: People, programs and potential (pp. 142-156). Michigan: University of Michigan Press.

Nguyen, H. t. (2009). The recommendation sequence in Vietnamese family talk: Negotiation of asymmetric access to authority and knowledge. In G. Kasper & H. t. Nguyen (Eds.), Talk in interaction: Multilingual perspectives (pp. 57-87). Honolulu, HI: National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawai‘i Press.

Nguyen, H. t. & Nguyen, M. T. T. (2023). Institutional pragmatics. Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. Oxford University Press.

Choe, A. T., Nguyen, H. t., & Vicentini, C. (2022). Interactional practices to manage epistemic stances in online searches during a computer-mediated conversation-for-learning. TESOL in Context 30(2), 39-63.

Nguyen, H. t. & Nguyen, M. T. T. (2022). Talking language ideologies into being in parent-child conversations in Singapore. Language and Communication 87, 244-257.

Nguyen, H. t., Choe, A. T., & Vicentini, C. (2022). Opportunities for second language learning in online search sequences during a computer-mediated tutoring session. Classroom Discourse 3(2), 145-163.

Nguyen, H. t. & Nguyen, M. T. T. (2021). “But I want to say ‘I means love you’”: A child’s development of stancetaking in parent-initiated language-focused sequences. Research on Children and Social Interaction 5(2), 211–23. [Accepted Manuscript version]

Nguyen, H. t. & Nguyen, M. T. T. (2021) “Did you just say transformers?” A child's agency and social actions in language-focused sequences. Journal of Pragmatics 183, 242-255.

Nguyen, H. t. (2018). Interactional practices across settings: From classroom role-plays to workplace patient consultations. Applied Linguistics 39(2), 213–235. Advance Access published March 17, 2016 doi:10.1093/applin/amw007. Link to article.

Nguyen, H. t. & Nguyen, M. T. T. (2017). “Am I a good boy?” Explicit membership categorization in parent-child interaction. Journal of Pragmatics 121, 25-39

Nguyen, H. t. (2017). The sequential organization of text and speech in multimodal synchronous computer-mediated communication. Text & Talk 37(1), 93–116.

Nguyen, H. t. & Nguyen, M. T. T. (2016). “But please can I play with the iPad?”: The development of request negotiation practices by a four-year-old child. Journal of Pragmatics 101, 66-82.

Nguyen, H. t. & Langevin, A. (2016). Some interactional functions of text in a text-and-voice SCMC chat session for language learning. International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching 6(1), 1-23.

Nguyen, H. t. (2015). Source marking in represented talk and thought in Vietnamese narratives. Text & Talk, 35(6), 731–757. (Special Issue: Represented talk across activities and languages, Guest Editors: Matthew T. Prior and Gabriele Kasper)

Nguyen, H. t. & Yang, L. (2015). A queer learner's identity positioning in classroom discourse. Classroom Discourse 6(3), 221-241.

Hanlon, M., Nguyen, H, t. & Terazawa, A. (2014). The progression of a recipient's responses in storytelling sequences at the workplace: A preliminary analysis. Hawaii Pacific University TESOL Working Paper Series, 12, 3-17.

Nguyen, H. t., Tsukimi, S., & Lin, W. (2014). An analysis of first-encounter dialogs in EFL textbooks. TESOL International Journal 9(1), 6-29.

Nguyen, H. t. (2013). The prime questions in authentic patient consultations: A call for additional research on current and new paradigms. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy 9(3), 339-352.

Nguyen, H. t. & Ishitobi, N. (2012). Ordering fast food: Service encounters in real-life interaction and in textbook dialogs. Japan Association for Language Teaching Journal, 34(2), 151-185.

Nguyen, H. t. (2012). Social interaction and competence development: Learning the sequential organization of a communicative practice. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 1(2), 127-142.

Nguyen, H. t. (2011). Boundary and alignment in multiparty conflict talk. Journal of Pragmatics 43, 1755-1771.

Nguyen, H. t. & Kellogg, G. (2010). “I had a stereotype that American were fat”: Becoming a speaker of culture in a second language.” The Modern Language Journal 94 (1), 56-73.

Nguyen, H. t. (2008) Sequential organization as local and longitudinal achievement. Text & Talk, 28 (4), 501-528.

Nguyen, H. t. (2008). Book review of Gesture: Visible action as utterance by Adam Kendon. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies – An International Journal, 5(1), 72-77.

Nguyen, H. t. & Macken, M. (2008). Factors affecting the production of Vietnamese tones: A study of American learners. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 30 (1), 49-77.

Nguyen, H. t. (2007). Rapport building in language instruction: A Microanalysis of the multiple resources in teacher talk. Language and Education, 21(4), 284-303.

Macken, M. & Nguyen, H. t. (2006). ‘Nói lái’ and the structure of the syllable. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 29(2), 1-58.

Nguyen, H. t. (2006). Constructing ‘expertness’: A novice pharmacist’s development of interactional competence in patient consultations. Communication & Medicine, 3(2), 147-160.

Nguyen, H. t. & Kellogg, G. (2005) Emergent identities in online discussions for second language learning. Canadian Modern Language Review, 62 (1), 111-136. (Special Issue on Information and Computer Technology and the Learning and Teaching of Second Languages.)

Nguyen, H. t. (2003). Patient’s display of drug knowledge in patient consultations. JAPhA, Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, 43 (2, March/April), 285.

Young, R. & Nguyen, H. (2002). Modes of meaning in high school science. Applied Linguistics, 23(3), 348-372.

Nguyen, H. t. (forthcoming). Heapful bowls of rice. In Tsutsumi, C. C. (Ed.) The Hawaii book of rice: Tales, trivia, and 101 great recipes, volume II. Honolulu, HI: Watermark Publishing.

Nguyen, H. t. (2023, January 21). Những khoảnh khắc Việt [Viet moments]. Hanoi, Vietnam: Vietnam Economic News. link to article.

Nguyen, H. t. (2016, February 13). Những đứa trẻ đồng xanh [Vietnamese translation of “Children of the rice”]. Hanoi, Vietnam: Electronic Newspaper of the Vietnamese Communist Party. Link to article.

Nguyen, H. t. (2013, May 2). Phương án kinh doanh, Vietnamese translation of “The business plan” by D. Alexander. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Thời Báo Kinh Tế Sài Gòn [Saigon Times] 167, 48-49.

Nguyen, H. t. (2012, November 29). Tôi lái xe [When I drive]. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Thời Báo Kinh Tế Sài Gòn [Saigon Times] 146, 44.

Nguyen, H. t. (2011). Children of the rice. In Tsutsumi, C. C. (Ed.) The Hawaii book of rice: Tales, trivia, and 101 great recipes, volume I (pp. 49-50). Honolulu, HI: Watermark Publishing.

Nguyen, H. t. (2011, February 4). Nhớ hoa [Floral nostalgia]. Hanoi, Vietnam: Electronic Newspaper of the Vietnamese Communist Party.

Nguyen, H. t. (2010, March 7). Hai nghìn, hai trăm năm mươi bộ [Two thousand, two hundred fifty feet]. Da Nang, Vietnam: Đà Nẵng Electronic Newspaper.

Nguyen, H. t. (2009, October 5). International Fellowship Program students overcome hardship to better community. Kalamalama: Hawai‘i Pacific University Student Newspaper, 1, 2.

Nguyen, H. t. (2003). Những người đàn ông Nhật vô hình, Vietnamese translation of “The invisible Japanese,” by Graham Greene. Sông Hương [Fragrant River], 4. Hue, Vietnam: Huế Art and Literature Association.

Nguyen, H. t. (2000). Nước rộng [The water is wide]. Áo Trắng [White Dress]. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Trẻ Publishing House and Phương Nam Culture Company.

Nguyen, H. t. (1996). Ba người lạ mặt, abridged Vietnamese translation of “The Stranger”, by Thomas Hardy. Sông Hương, [Fragrant River], 6. Hue, Vietnam: Huế Art and Literature Association. (Best Translator of Foreign Literature Award this year)

Nguyen, H. t. (1996). Người vợ thủy chung, abridged Vietnamese translation of “The faithful wife”, by Morley Callaghan. Sông Hương [Fragrant River] 1. Hue, Vietnam: Huế Art and Literature Association.

Nguyen, H. t. (1993). Người đã bắn Liberty Vallance, abridged translation of “The man who shot Liberty Vallance”, by Dorothy M. Johnson. Kiến Thức Ngày Nay [Knowledge for Today], 121. Ho Chi Minh city Vietnam: Hồ Chí Minh City Writers Association.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

    • (2023, July, with Taiane Malabarba).  Learning on the Job Through Repair and Appropriation of Co-Participants’ Linguistic Materials, paper accepted to be presented in the symposium “Language, work and vocational education: Teaching, training and learning through language use in professional contexts” at the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (AILA). Lyons, France.

    • (2023, June, with Taiane Malabarba). The persistence of interactional history in service encounters with different co-participants. Paper accepted to be presented in the panel “Interactional histories and conversation analysis” (organized by Arnulf Deppermann & Pentti Haddington) at the International Conference for Conversation Analysis (ICCA). Brisbane, Australia.

    • (2022, October, with Minh Thi Thuy Nguyen). Talking language ideologies into being in parent-child conversations in Singapore. Paper accepted for presentation at the Digital Meeting for Conversation Analysis, International Society for Conversation Analysis. Virtual.

    • (2022, September, with Taiane Malabarba). Interactional competence development at the workplace: Changes in small talk initiation by an EFL hotel staff member. Paper accepted for presentation at the international conference on Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2). Barcelona, Spain. (presented by Taiane Malabarba)

    • (2022, March, with Taiane Malabarba). The development of interactional competence as socialization with co-participants of the same category. Paper accepted for presentation in the colloquium “Language learning in the social world: L2 interactional competence and socialization processes” organized by Simona Pekarek-Doehler and Klara Skogmyr Marian, American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) international conference. Withdrawn due to COVID concerns, presented as an independent online panel. Virtual.

    • (2022, February). Using technology to practice vocabulary and grammar in context. Panel presented with Jesslyn Wheeler, Ariko Nishimura, Nikita Zavyalev, and Jared Smith at the Hawaii TESOL Conference. Virtual.

    • (2021, February). Developing high-quality language lessons with the exploratory approach using real-life conversations. Panel presented with Shiho Fujii, Talia Romeo, Lydia Lee, Sasha Simmonds, and Jesslyn Wheeler at the Hawaii TESOL Conference. Virtual.

    • (2020, February). Motivating ESOL students through engagement with social issues. Panel presented with Alanna Solomon, Matteo Socciarelli, Lisa Faonelua, Aiko Takeuchi, and Izabella Muller at the Hawaii TESOL Conference. Leeward Community College, Hawaii.

    • (2019, December, with Minh Thi Thuy Nguyen). Language negotiation in bilingual mother-child interactions: The case of a Vietnamese immigrant family in Singapore. Paper presented at the Fifth Intergenerational Transmission of Minority Languages Symposium: Language, Culture and Ethnicity in Indigenous and Migrant Languages (ITML5). Department of Language Education, Stockholm University, Sweden.

    • (2019, March, with Minh Thi Thuy Nguyen). Family language ideologies and practices: The case of a bilingual immigrant family. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Bilingualism, University of Malta Valletta Campus, Malta. (presented by Minh Nguyen)

    • (2019, February, with Matteo Socciarelli). Using local conversations to develop learners’ interactional competence. Hawaii TESOL Conference. Brigham Young University, Hawaii.

    • (2018, July). Interactional construction grammar perspective on zero-subject and nominal/pronominal-subject constructions in Vietnamese spoken discourse. Poster presented at the International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG). Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France.

    • (2018, July, with Guri Sagvolden & Dean Jorgensen) The sequential organization of affiliative actions in tandem skydiving instruction. Paper presented at the International Conference of Conversation Analysis (ICCA). Loughborrough University, UK.

    • (2018, July, with Minh Thi Thuy Nguyen) Talking linguistic competence into being in parent-child conversations: A longitudinal study. Paper presented at the International Conference of Conversation Analysis (ICCA). Loughborrough University, UK.

    • (2018, February, with Adam Brod, Romina Castagno, Reina Horton, Justin Pannell, Milang Shin, & Yuki Tanaka). Using corpora to teach English for real-life communication. Panel presented at Hawaii TESOL Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii.

    • (2017, March) Developmental changes or contextual adaptations? Tracing the development of interactional competence in naturally occurring talk-in-interaction. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Portland, Oregon.

    • (2017, March, with Minh thi Thuy Nguyen). Developing interactional practices to talk about language: A longitudinal study of a four-year-old child. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Portland, Oregon.

    • (2017, March). Discussion in the panel “Conversation Analytic Perspectives on English Language Teaching in Global Contexts: Constraints and Possibilities,”organized by Taiane Malabarba, presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Portland, Oregon.

    • (2016, April 8, with Minh thi Thuy Nguyen). Becoming a good boy/good girl: Membership categorization analysis of child language socialization. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Orlando, Florida.

    • (2015, August 4). Developing interactional competence in the material world of the pharmacy patient consultation. Paper presented at the International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (IEMCA) conference. Kolding, Denmark.

    • (2015, March 22, with Minh thi Thuy Nguyen). Learning to negotiate requests: The development of interactional competence by bilingual children. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Toronto, Canada.

    • (2015, March 28, with Lajlim Yang). Gender identity expression by a queer learner in classroom discourse. Paper presented at the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) conference and convention. Toronto, Canada.

    • (2015, February 14). Identifying computer technologies' positive and negative affordances for language learners. Panel presented with Nick Bayani, Sarah Fowler, Aya Oyamada, Kristine Salvesen, Martin Molden, and Karina Lopez at the Hawaii Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (HI TESOL) conference. Brigham Young University, Hawaii.

    • (2014, February 15). From conversation analysis to the teaching of second language and culture. Panel presented with Helen Arcos, Megan Hanlon, Leola Solis, Chrysa Staiano, and Ericka Swanson at the Hawaii Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (HI TESOL) conference. Leeward Community College, Hawaii.

    • (2012, November 9, with Hong Le). Training independent and confident communicators in English: From policy to textbooks. Paper presented at the 4th international conference on Engaging with Vietnam. East-West Center, Honolulu, HI.

    • (2012, March 31, with Noriko Ishitobi). What can teachers learn from analyzing naturally occurring discourse? Paper presented at the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) conference and convention. Philadelphia, Pensylvania.

    • (2012, February 11). Bridging the gap between textbook dialogs and naturally occurring conversations. Panel presented with Saeko Tsukimi, Hong Le, Wen-pei Lin, Corey Gonzalez, and Linh Bui at the Hawaii Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (HI TESOL) conference. Honolulu, Hawaii.

    • (2011, March 26-29). Motivated looking at the prime questions in pharmacy patient consultations. Paper presented in the colloquium “Current projects in applied conversation analysis” at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference. Chicago, Illinois.

    • (2009, March 20-24, with Gabriele Kasper). Changing competence-in-interaction: Evidence from a pharmacy intern in patient consultations. Paper presented in the colloquium “Toward a reconceptualization of ‘Language’ and ‘Acquisition’ as situated action through talk” at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference. Denver, Colorado. 

    • (2008, October 17-19). Conversation analysis and longitudinal data: Insights for SLA. Paper presented in the colloquium “Combining conversation analysis and SLA: Avenues for research” at the Second Language Research Forum (SLRF). Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

    •  (2008, June 12-15). Changing competence-in-interaction: Evidence from a pharmacy interns’ use of technical language in patient consultations. Paper presented at the research symposium on “Microgenesis of L2 Competence in Interaction.” Long Beach Island, New Jersey.

    • (2007, April 21-24). Conversation-analytic perspectives on language development. Co-organized colloquium (with Midori Ishida) presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Cosa Mesa, California.

    • (2007, April 21-24). Learning as local and longitudinal accomplishment: How an intern performed openings and advice sequences in pharmacy consultations over time. Paper presented in the colloquium “Conversation-analytic perspectives on language development” at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Cosa Mesa, California.

    • (2007, April 2-4). ‘Cross-reactivity’ at the pharmacy counter: Conflict and affiliation. Paper presented at the International Society for Language Studies (ISLS). Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

    • (2007, April 2-4, co-presented with Kellogg, G.). The non-neutrality of second language teaching in content-based instruction. Paper presented at the International Society for Language Studies (ISLS). Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

    • (2007, March 19-24, with G. Kellogg & F. Noji). Vocabulary learning as language socialization. Paper presented at the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages convention. Seattle, Washington.

    • (2006, May 10-14). Learning talk. Co-organized panel (with John Hellermann), at the International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA). Helsinki, Finland.

    • (2006, May 10-14). Sequential organization as local and longitudinal achievement. Paper presented in the panel “Learning talk,” at the International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA). Helsinki, Finland.

    • (2006, February 18). Cultivating communities of practice in an ESL class. Paper presented at Hawai‘i TESOL. Honolulu, Hawai‘i. 

    • (2005, July 24-29). Constructing ‘expertness’: The development of interactional competence by pharmacy interns. Paper presented at the World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA). Madison, Wisconsin. 

    • (2005, January 6-9, with M. Macken). Phonological constituents. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, California.

    • (2004, June 10-13, with G. Kellogg). ESOL learners' emergent identities through electronic bulletin board postings. Paper presented at the Computers and Writing Conference. Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

    • (2004, May 1-4, with R. Young). Co-constructing context. Paper presented as part of the invited colloquium “Deconstructing the individual in language learning and assessment” (R. Young, organizer) at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference. Portland, Oregon.

    •  (2003, March 28-April 1). Patient’s display of drug knowledge in patient consultations. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting and Exposition of the American Pharmaceutical Association (AphA). New Orleans, Lousiana.

    •  (2003, March 22-25). Action sequence management and interactional competence development among pharmacy students. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference. Arlington, Virginia.

    •  (2002, December 15-21). The situated development of interactional competence in the practice of patient consultation. Paper presented as part of the symposium “Situated practice and language learning” (J. K. Hall, organizer) at the 13th World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA). Singapore.

    • (2002, July 12-14). Visualizing sounds: Using computer software to teach and learn pronunciation. Paper presented at the 12th annual conference of the Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages and the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages (COTSEAL/SEASSI). University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin.

    • (2002, May 15-17). Orientalism and the standardization of spoken Vietnamese into Quoc Ngu. Paper presented at the 12th conference of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS). Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois.

    • (2001, October 4-7, with M. Macken). Vietnamese tones in American learners’ interlanguage. Paper presented at the Pacific Second Language Research Forum (PacSLRF). University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

    • (2001, February 23-27). The interactional competence framework and the study of language acquisition. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference. St. Louis, Missouri.

    • (2000, September 7-10). An ESL learner’s development of interactional competence in writing conferences. Paper presented at the Second Language Research Forum (SLRF). University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin.

    • (2000, March 14-18). Social talk in an ESL classroom. Paper presented at the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Conference. Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

    • (2000, March  10-13, with R. Young). Making sense and making meaning in educational assessment. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference. Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

    • (1999, October 13-15). A contrastive genre-analysis of application essays written by American students and Vietnamese students. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Language and Development. Hà Nội, Vietnam.

    • (1999, September 23-26). Sociocultural factors in the expression of an unfamiliar genre. Paper presented at the Second Language Research Forum (SLRF). Minneapolis, Minnessota.

    • (1999, March 8-12, with R. Young). Modes of understanding in a high school physics class. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference. Stamford, Connecticut.

INVITED TALKS

    • (2022, November 16). Assessment design: Crafting valid and reliable test questions for positive washback on learning. Presentation in the Teaching Talks series, hosted by the Center for Online Learning and Academic Partnerships, Hawaii Pacific University. Zoom.

    • (2022, June 9). Các chức năng giao tiếp của cấu trúc chủ ngữ zê-rô và chủ ngữ danh từ/đại từ trong hội thoại tiếng Việt [Interactional functions of zero subject and noun/pronoun subject constructions in Vietnamese conversations]. Presentation at the Institute of Linguistics, Hanoi, Vietnam.

    • (2020, June 13). Understanding grammar in social interaction for language learning and teaching: A conversation analytic approach. Webinar for language teachers in Southeast Asia, hosted by Vietnam National University: University of Languages and International Studies, Hanoi, Vietnam. 

    • (2019, November 1). Developing interactional competence: Insights from research on second language learning, workplace communication training, and child language socialization. Guest presentation at the Center for Research in English Language Teaching. Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania.

    • (2019, August 23, 24). Developing learners’ ability to use language in context. Workshop for in-service and pre-service teachers at Ibaraki Christian University. Ibaraki, Japan.

    • (2019). The language of patient consultation in pharmacy. Lecture to Korean nursing students in the International Group Program, Hawaii Pacific University. 

    • (2016, October 7). Identity performance by Vietnamese users of English in Vietnam: Implications for language eduction. Keynote speech delivered at the 8th “Engaging with Vietnam – An Interdisciplinary Dialogue” Conference in a joint keynote session on Language education, creativity, and identity performance in Vietnamese contexts. Honolulu, Hawaii.

    • (2014, November 22). Tracking interactional competence development: Using conversation analysis to understand situated learning. Keynote speech delivered at the international conference on Interactional Competences in Institutional Practices. Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

    • (2006-2018). Developing interactional competence for EFL learners. Lecture to public school teachers and graduate students from South Korea, Center for Asia-Pacific Exchange (CAPE). Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

    • (2011-2018). Computer tools for the study of language in context. Lecture to public school teachers and graduate students from South Korea, Center for Asia-Pacific Exchange (CAPE). Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

    • (2014, December 17). Alternative assessment: A practical workshop. International Mid-Pacific College, Honolulu, Hawaii.

    • (2014, May 15). Language experience workshop: Vietnamese culture and language. Hawaii TESOL, Honolulu.

    • (2010). CALL 4 EFL. Workshop to in-service teachers from Vietnam. American English Academy (AEA), Thai Nguyen, Vietnam.

    • (2009). Project based language learning using computer technology. Workshop to public school teachers from South Korea, Center for Asia-Pacific Exchange (CAPE), Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

    • (2006-2009). English phonology and phonetics. Lecture to high-school teachers in the Hiroshima Prefecture Board of Education Summer Program, Honda Center, Kapi‘olani Community College. Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

    • (2006, March 22). Rapport building in language instruction: A microanalysis of the multiple resources in teacher talk. Presentation at the TESOL Programs, Hawai‘i Pacific University. Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

    • (2006, March 15; 2005, November 4). How to make the most out of being an international student in the U.S. Presentation to international students at the English Foundation Programs, Hawai‘i Pacific University. Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

    • (2005 October 21) Conversation analysis and interactional competence. Workshop for graduate students at the College of Foreign Languages, Vietnam National University. Hanoi, Vietnam.

    • (2005, June 12). Vietnam: Society, language, customs, and cultural norms. Presentation at the Travel Seminar “Experiencing Southeast Asia: Vietnam & Thailand,” AsiaPacificEd Program for Schools, Education Program East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

    • (2004, November 18, with C. Chaudron and M. Prior). The development of an elicited imitation Proficiency Test. Paper presented in the Brownbag series of the Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

    • (2004, February 27). Building rapport in language instruction: A microanalysis of the hybrid resources in teacher talk. Paper presented in the Demos and Discussions series at the Language Learning center, University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

    • (2003, April 10). Action sequence management and interactional competence development. Paper presented in the Brownbag series of the Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

    • (2001, February 16). The interactional competence framework and the study of language acquisition. Paper presented in the colloquium series of the Applied Linguistics Student Association, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    • (2000, March 3). Social talk in an ESL classroom. Paper presented in the Colloquium series of the Applied Linguistics Student Association, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison.