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Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Recent Publications

Book cover of Language and Interaction

R. F. Young. (2008). Language and interaction: An advanced resource book. New York & Abingdon, UK: Routledge

R. F. Young. (2007). Language learning and teaching as discursive practice. In Language learning and teaching as social inter-action, edited by Z. Hua, P. Seedhouse, W. Li, & V. Cook. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

R. F. Young & E. R. Miller. (2004). Learning as changing participation: Discourse roles in ESL writing conferences. The Modern Language Journal, 88(4), 519-535.

R. F. Young & J. Lee. (2004). Identifying units in interaction: Reactive tokens in Korean and English conversations. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 8(3), 380-407.

R. Young. (2003). Learning to talk the talk and walk the walk: Interactional competence in academic spoken English.  North Eastern Illinois University Working Papers in Linguistic, 2, 26-44.

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

R. F. Young. (2002). Discourse approaches to oral language assessment. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 22, 243-262.

R. Young. (1999). Sociolinguistic approaches to SLA. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 19, 105-132.

Book cover of Talking and Testing

R. Young & A. W. He (Eds.). (1998). Talking and testing: Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency. Amsterdam/Philadelphia:John Benjamins Publishing Company.

A. W. He & R. Young. (1998). Language proficiency interviews: A discourse approach.  In R. Young & A. W. He (Eds.), Talking and testing: Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency (pp. 1-24). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

R. Young & G. B. Halleck. (1998). "Let them eat cake!" or how to avoid losing your head in cross-cultural conversations.  In R. Young & A. W. He (Eds.), Talking and testing: Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency (pp. 355-382). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

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Contact Information

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of English
600 North Park Street
Madison, WI 53706-1403
USA

Phone: (608) 263-2679
Fax: (608) 263-9305
Email: rfyoung at wisc dot edu

 

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Current Research

The Entextualization of Talk in Adobe PDF (.pdf) formatPDF

bullet This paper shows how in the discursive practice of assessment speaking ability becomes a cultural object that can be evaluated, criticized, and reproduced.

Interactional Competence: Challenges for Validity in Adobe PDF (.pdf) format PDF

bullet A discussion of the implications of the theory of interactional competence for the design and interpretation of language tests.

 

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Expertise

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Teaching

Course Syllabuses

bullet English 110: Intensive ESL Grammar
bullet English 324: The Structure of English
bullet English 333: Second Language Acquisition
bullet English 334: Introduction to TESOL Methods
bullet English 336: English in Society
bullet English 711: Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
bullet English 713: Topics in Applied Linguistics
bullet English 715: Advanced Second Language Acquisition
bullet English 905: Seminar in Interactional Competence
bullet Hauptseminar: Contrastive Rhetoric
bullet Hauptseminar: Cross-Cultural Pragmatics
bullet Hauptseminar: Introduction to Second Language Acquisition
bullet Linguistics 596 (B): Interactional Competence
bullet Proseminar: English in Society
bullet Proseminar: World Englishes
bullet Vorlesung: Languages in Contact

 

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This page was last updated on May 2, 2008 .