Richard Young

Professor (1993)
608-263-2679
rfyoung@wisc.edu
www.wisc.edu/english/rfyoung/

Degrees and Institutions

PhD, Pennsylvania MA, Reading BA, MA, Oxford

Research Interests

Applied linguistics, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, oral language assessment, discursive practices, classroom discourse

Selected Publications

Language and Interaction: An Advanced Resource Book (2007); Talking and Testing: Discourse Approaches to the Assessment of Oral Proficiency (1998); Variation in Interlanguage Morphology (1991); "Identifying units in interaction: Reactive tokens in Korean and English conversations, " Journal of Sociolinguistics 8 (2004); "Learning as changing participation: Discourse roles in ESL writing conferences" The Modern Language Journal 88 (2004); "Modes of Meaning in High School Science," Applied Linquistics 23 (2002); "Discourse Approaches to Oral Language Assessment," Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 22 (2002).

Personal Statement

I try to understand the properties of communication in face-to-face interactions and to apply that understanding to the assessment of English spoken by learners of English as a second language.