People

Areas of linguistics:  Pragmatics and discourse analysis-- critical discourse studies (CDS/CDA), multimodal analysis and mediated texts, political discourse; Sociolinguistics-- language in time and space,  gendered identities, and language policies and attitudes; numeral classification systems in Austro-Asiatic.

Brief description of work: I have long term interest in the construction of oppositional identities and deliberate dispute in campaign debates and advertising, news commentary shows, and graffiti. I have previously written on the US origins of CDA and edited volumes on Official English, Lao Studies and Proceedings of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society.

Courses: I am now Professor Emerita and not teaching. Previous courses I have taught are ENG 312: English in its Social Setting; ENG 318: The Life and Death of Languages; LIN 515: American English; LIN 516: Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis; APL 555 Disciplinary Discourses; LIN 655 Disciplinary Discourses; LIN 615 Advanced Studies in Sociolinguistics; LIN 616: Advanced Studies in Discourse Analysis

Areas of linguistics: Second Language Acquisition, L2 Pedagogy, Blended Learning

Brief description of work: Hope M. Anderson is Clinical Assistant Professor of Spanish and Director of Spanish Language Acquisition. She holds a doctorate in Second Language Acquisition & Teaching from the University of Arizona with a specialization in Second Language Pedagogical Theory and Program Administration. Her research interests include hybrid language pedagogy and curriculum design. Her first book, Blended Basic Language Courses: Design, Pedagogy, and Implementation, was published by Routledge Research in 2018.

Courses: SLC/SPA 596: Second Language Methodologies, SLC/SPA 598: Language Program Administration

Areas of linguistics: sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, educational linguistics, raciolinguistics

Brief description of work: Kate is the lead editor of the journal Linguistics and Education. Her research interests include how educational opportunity is shaped locally and through circulating sociohistorical notions of what counts (e.g. as ability, acceptable language use). In addition to reflexive qualitative methodological examinations of research and practice, she also examines discursive constructions of race, ability, and language.

Courses: DCI 691 - Discourse Analysis; COE 503 - Introduction to Qualitative Research; BLE 535 -  Sociolinguistic Issues in Bilingual Education; BLE 537 - Language Structure and Acquisition 

Areas of linguistics: Syntax, Second Language Acquisition; Language Pedagogy and Teaching Methods 

Brief description of work:

Proficiency-based second language instruction;  Research-based principles and strategies for effective vocabulary instruction; development of interpersonal speaking skills in a second-language classroom setting; French syntax

Courses:  SLC 201 Introduction to Linguistics; FRE 421 Structure of French, FRE 423 French Syntax,  FRE 422 Applied Linguistics, lower and upper-division French language courses; FRE 484 Internships (teaching) 

Areas of linguistics: Second language acquisition, bilingual education, discourse analysis, young language learners

Brief description of work: I study language learning in young emergent multilingual children, and I focus on how learning is shaped by context on multiple scales:  from peer social interactions, to teachers’ beliefs, to language policy. This work bridges the fields of education and applied linguistics. I'm currently studying two-way dual language immersion classrooms (classrooms in which children learn in both English and Spanish) and trying to better understand how teachers make  classroom language policy decisions.

Courses: DCI 691 - Discourse Analysis; ECD 321 - Foundations in Language. Literacy and Culture in Early Childhood

Areas of linguistics:   Variationist sociolinguistics, quantitative linguistics,  dialectology, historical linguistics, classics. 

Brief description of work: I study morpho-syntactic variation and language change in understudied varieties of Spanish, both monolingual and bilingual, such as Peruvian and U.S. Southwest Spanish. 

Courses: SLC 201 - Introduction to Linguistics, SPA 400 - Introduction to Spanish Linguistics, SPA 419 - Language Variations of Spanish, SPA 540 -History of the Spanish Language, SPA 541 - Spanish Language in America, SPA 542 - Studies in the Spanish Southwest

Areas of linguistics:  Applied linguistics, languages for specific purposes, second and third language acquisition, CALL, translation. 

Brief description of work: My area of study is languages for specific purposes, and I focus on teacher training needs using a critical ecological approach. 

Courses: FRE lower division online and in-person - FRE 598 French for Business Management - FRE 312 Oral and Written Expression II - FRE 305 Readings in French Literature - FRE 412 Advanced Written French

Areas of linguistics: Second language acquisition, bilingual education

Brief description of work: My work is focused on developing second language and bilingual programs that meet the specific needs of different populations of learners. I am currently concerned with the benefits of additive bilingualism and biliteracy development in education .

Courses: TEL 208 : Literacy in a Changing World, RDG 323 : Literacy Process/Content Areas

Areas of linguistics: Psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, individual differences, L2/heritage speakers

Brief description of work: psycholinguist/cognitive scientist, specifically interested in  – individual differences in depth of processing, meaning-making heuristics, identity, and human factors behaviors.  I am interested in examining how we vary in defining our identities, interpreting the language we are daily exposed to, and our perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors within societal systems. I utilize mixed methods to research the questions that interest me.

Areas of linguistics:   Usage-based linguistics (esp. phonology), sociophonetics, corpus linguistics, quantitative research methodology, bilingualism. 

Brief description of work: I study phonetic and phonological variation and change in Portuguese and Spanish, both monolingual and bilingual varieties. I am especially interested in how individual differences in language use result in individual differences in linguistic representation. 

Courses: SLC/SPA 194 - Language in the United States, SPA 400 - Fundamentals of Spanish Linguistics, SPA 417 - The Sounds of Spanish, SPA 544 - Spanish Phonology, SPA 598 - Research Methods for Linguists

Areas of linguistics:  Second language education

Brief description of work:  Most of my work focuses on practical and theoretical aspects of learning transfer in second language education.  Some questions I have investigated are:

• What second language learning transfers beyond learning contexts?

• What factors influence this transfer?

• How “far” will second language learning transfer?

• What can educators do to promote transfer of second language learning?

Courses:  ENG404-Studies in second language acquisition, LIN501-Approaches to research, LIN521-Methods of teaching English as a second language, LIN520-Second language acquisition theories, LIN523-Language testing and assessment, LIN524-Curriculum design and materials development

Areas of linguistics:  Computational Linguistics, Digital Health, Spatial Analytics

Brief description of work:  Most of my work focuses on the intersection between Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, and Urban Analysis.  Some questions I have investigated are:

• How is language variation distributed across (urban) space?

• How do sociolinguistic and cultural backgrounds influence health education?

• How well do large language models (LLMs) perform in linguistic tasks such as syntactic annotation of underrepresented languages and pragmatic reasoning?

Courses:  SLC304 Digital Humanities; SLC Machines against Humans; SLC Misinformation; Humanities Lab Digital Health; SLC201 Introduction to Linguistics

Areas of linguistics: Applied Linguistics

Brief description of work: Dr Kleinsasser is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief of Teaching and Teacher Education An International Journal of Research and Studies. Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education; online language teaching and learning; group work discourse analysis

Courses: BLE536 Education for Social Transformation; BLE 538 Methods for Educating Multilingual Learners

Areas of linguistics:  sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, pragmatics, discourse analysis, social media, mediatized gender, language and life stage, youth language,  Japan, Korea

Brief description of work: My current research looks at how younger adults in Japan and Korea are re-interpretating and remaking ideologies and practices linked to a 'good life'

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Areas of linguistics: World Englishes, TESOL, Applied Linguistics

Brief description of work: The current focus of my research is the global spread of English and its implications for English language teaching.

Courses: APL518-World Englishes, APL555-Disciplinary Discourses, ENG319-Future of English, ENG404-Introduction to TESOL,  LIN521-TESOL Methods, LIN591-Native Speakerism in TESOL, LIN591-Teaching English as an International Language, LIN597-MTESOL Capstone Seminar.

Areas of linguistics:  linguistic anthropology, educational linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, narrative analysis

Brief description of work:  I'm a linguistic anthropologist of education, which means that I'm mainly interested in how language and social relations come together in people's everyday experience in educational settings. I've worked (and continue to work) primarily with Mexican-American high school and college students in the U.S. Southwest (Arizona and Texas). I'm also interested in many other issues around language, identity, power, and cultural practice, including multilingualism in higher education and Indigenous language revitalization. 

Courses: TCL/ASB 275: Culture, Language, and Learning; TCL/ASB/ENG: The Borders of Language; TCL 494/TSS/HED 598: Ethnography of Schooling in the Borderlands; TCL 494/TSS/HED 598: Decolonizing Research in Higher Education

Areas of linguistics: historical linguistics, historical phonology of Chinese, history of Chinese, history of Korean, writing system, vernacularism

Brief description of work: Young Kyun Oh works on the cultural connection among East Asian societies, with particular foci on the language and the book. His ultimate interest lies in how cultures interact to influence each other, how language, books, and other kind of media function as vehicles of cultural transmission and exchange, and how different geographical regions come to be seen as forming a continuous cultural space.

Courses:  The Chinese Language, History of Chinese, Seminar in Chinese Linguistics,  Seminar in Chinese Linguistics, Seminar on Chinese Philological Texts, Books and Print Culture of Premodern East Asia, Common Chinese Characters

Areas of linguistics: North American French; Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)

Brief description of work: My interests are in North American varieties of French, particularly the French found in Québec. I also work in CALL, using technology to aid in language learning.

Courses: French Phonetics, French Presence in North America, Oral and Written French I and II

Areas of linguistics: Historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, gender, the body, identity & American Sign Language.

Brief description of work: My work primarily focuses on the historical analysis of of gendered identities within the Deaf community, as well as constructions of the body, accessibility,  and civil rights in disability history.

Courses: ASL 101, 102, 201, 202

Areas of linguistics: 

discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, qualitative methods, narrative, gender, identity, emotion, multilingualism

Brief description of work:

My interests include social interaction through the lens of conversation analysis, discursive psychology, membership categorization, and formulation analysis; narrative and discursive-constructionist approaches to identity; socio-psychological dimensions of second language learning and use; and critique of qualitative research practices. I am currently concerned with the linguistic and interactional construction and management of emotionality, well-being, and mental health. 

Courses:

LIN501 - Research Methods, LIN516 - Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis, LIN520 - Second Language Acquisition Theories, LIN616 - Advanced Discourse Analysis: Identity, LIN790 - Discourse Analysis Reading/Data Analysis Class, APL601 - Introduction to Applied Linguistics, ENG312 - English in Its Social Setting, ENG404 - Studies in Second Language Acquisition: Motivation, Emotion, and Individual Differences in SLA, ENG404 - Studies in Second Language Acquisition: Motivation and Emotion Pedagogy in TESOL, ENG404 - Studies in Second Language Acquisition: The Role of Identity in SLA, ENG404 - Studies in Second Language Acquisition: SLA Theories 

Areas of linguistics: Lexicography, Metalexicography, Lexicology, Cultural Linguistics, Morphology, Applied Linguistics

Brief description of work: Stemming from various bilingual lexicographic projects that I have completed, my current reserach focuses on the nexus of language, culture, and identity as evidenced in cross-linguistic lexical differences.

Courses: SLC 294 Language and Culture Clash: Communication and Miscommunication, SLV 440 History of Slavic Languages, SLC/SLV 304 Digital Humanities for Language Majors

Areas of linguistics: linguistic anthropology, pragmatics, language and gender, medical anthropology, masculinity, Japan

Brief description of work: My work focuses on the intersection of language, power, stigma, and health.

Courses: ASB 380 Language, Culture and Gender; ASB 591 Language and Culture (Graduate Seminar)

Areas of linguistics: discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, mixed methods, healthcare, language policy and planning, language and body, variation, corpus analysis, sociophonetics. 

Brief description of work: My research integrates qualitative and quantitative methodologies in examining written and spoken discourses on health issues, from policy documents to doctor-patient interactions. Updated information on my work can be found on my website: www.PeterTorresPhD.com 

Courses: ENG 213 Intro to the Study of Language, ENG 312 English in its Social Setting, LIN 501 Approaches to Research, LIN 510 Linguistics, APL 601 Intro to Applied Linguistics

Areas of linguistics: Second language acquisition, Korean linguistics, usage-based linguistics, qualitative methods, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics

Brief description of work: My research includes cognitive process in second language acquisition and the influential factors (e.g., conceptual transfer of learning, context, L3, etc.) that reduce or enhance L2 learning development, in relation to Korean. I have worked on (1) second language acquisition of figurative language, especially Korean emotion metaphors and Korean formulaic language, (2) qualitative and quantitative approaches to corpus-based analysis of metaphors, idioms, collocations, etc., (3) linguistic and L2 development analysis of Korean locative expressions. My recent interests include Korean polysemous words in Korean as a second language, figurative language use across genres and registers. 

I am the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages.

Courses: KOR 313/314: Third Year Korean, KOR 375: Intercultural Communication in Korea, KOR/SLC 420/598: Emotions Across Languages, Cultures, and History, KOR 494/598, Aspects of Korean Linguistics.

Areas of linguistics: Syntax, Historical Linguistics, Typology; 

Brief description of work: Elly van Gelderen is a syntactician interested in language change. Her work shows how regular syntactic change (grammaticalization and the linguistic cycle) provides insight in the Faculty of Language. Her 2011 book, The Linguistic Cycle: Language Change and the Language Faculty (Oxford University Press) shows how cyclical change can be accounted for through an economy principle. Her Clause Structure (Cambridge University Press, 2013) examines a number of current debates in theoretical syntax. She is currently working on the history of argument structure, e.g. how unaccusatives and unergatives change in very different directions in The Diachrony of Meaning (Routledge 2018). Related interests are the evolution of language, biolinguistics, prescriptivism, authorship debates, and code switching. 

Courses: LIN 510, 514, 517, 610, 614, 617; ENG 314, 413, 414