Joy Darling Johnston

joy.d.johnston@gmail.com

Titre de la thèse

"Membres, étrangers et autres. Quelle place pour ceux qui intègrent de nouvelles communautés linguistiques? Une analyse multimodale de la subjectivité et de l'intersubjectivité dans les conversations quotidiennes entre membres nés et membres rattachés."


Présentation

Joy Darling Johnston prépare une thèse en anthropologie linguistique sous la direction de Michel de Fornel.

Education

2010 - Enrollment in the PhD program in Language Sciences at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. (Formation doctorale « Arts et Langages », spécialité Sciences du Langage).

2003-2005 - Master of Science in Linguistics - Applied Concentration, Georgetown University, Washington DC, 2005. Master’s Research Paper: Disagreeing politely: The case of a news panel interview with a European cast. A multimodal interactional discourse analysis.
 

Other Training

2015 - Analyse vidéo multimodale de l'interaction - Ecole thématique ICAR - MAINLY - Lyon.

2003 - Rater Certification, French Simulated Oral Proficiency Interview (SOPI), Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL), Washington D.C.

1993 - Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), American University of Paris.
 

Publications & Conference Presentations

Johnston, J. D. and Doughty, C. (2007). L2 Listening Sub-skills. Technical Report: Center for Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland. Available online here.

Johnston, J. D., L2 Listening Complexity: A Meta-Analysis and Developmental Processing Model (with Catherine Doughty). Paper presented at the Second Language Research Forum, University of Michigan, October 29 - November 1, 2009.

Johnston, J. D., Teaching Intonation to Improve Communication. Workshop presented at the
TESOL-France 25th Annual Colloquium, Paris, November 17-18, 2006.
 

Research Activities

2009 - External peer review for the journal Language Learning.

2008-2009 - Research assistant for the dissertation project, Grammatical Gender Representation and Processing in Advanced Second Language Learners of French. University of Maryland.

2007-2009 - Collaboration on the project Characterizing the conceptual complexity of ESL listening materials: A developmental processing approach. Funding awarded by the TOEFL Committee of Examiners of the Educational Testing Service, Princeton New Jersey.

2005-2009 - Research consultant with the Second Language Acquisition Section (Area Director Catherine Doughty), Center for Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland.

Selected Professional Activities

2010-present - Instructional design, ECCOnow English Language Coaching Online, Connecticut.

2006-2012 - Second Language Acquisition course design and training, International Teams
(NGO), Illinois.

2003-2006 - English language instruction and program direction, Georgetown University Law
Center, Washington D.C. / Exam administration and rating (Franco-British Chamber of Commerce Diploma
Exams), The Language Network, Paris. / Proficiency assessment (French Simulated Oral Proficiency Interview), Georgetown
University Office of International Programs, Washington D.C. / English language instruction, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Télécommunications, Paris.

Research Interests

Linguistic community - Multi party interactions - Intersubjectivity.