D Kay Johnston
Biographic Data
| ID | 1584930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Kay Johnston |
| GIVEN NAMES | D Kay |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnston |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSTON D K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colgate University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Classroom Research in Second Language Acquisition
A sociocultural perspective of language and learning has had a major impact on classroom research on second language acquisition (SLA) over the last two decades. This perspective considers language to be a fundamentally social phenomenon, comprised of linguistic resources whose meanings are both embodied in and constitutive of everyday communication. Language learning is viewed as a collaborative process that begins in our regularly occurring com…
Professional women “rebalancing” in retirement
This is an interview-based study focused on how professional baby boomer women negotiate and narrate postretirement lives. This group came of age in the 1960s and represents a socially privileged segment of the baby boomer generation, a cohort that created new gendered pathways in employment. Today, these retired professional women are attempting to make sense of their multilayered complex and changing realities. In their accounts, the most salie…
Propositions and Propositional Acts
Suppose that John asks, ‘Is the window open?’ and Mary replies, ‘The window is open.’ Then John and Mary have produced two distinct utterances, and in doing so, they have performed two different kinds of speech act. But clearly there is something that these utterances have in common. According to the standard theory of speech acts, in these utterances different illocutionary forces have been applied to the same propositional content. Similarly, i…
Understanding Language Teaching
Educating teachers together
1996). Educating teachers together: Teachers as learners, talkers, and collaborators. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 35, The Challenges of School/University Collaboration, pp. 173-178
Adolescents' moral dilemmas
Educating teachers together
1996). Educating teachers together: Teachers as learners, talkers, and collaborators. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 35, The Challenges of School/University Collaboration, pp. 173-178
Adolescents' moral dilemmas
Educating teachers together
1996). Educating teachers together: Teachers as learners, talkers, and collaborators. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 35, The Challenges of School/University Collaboration, pp. 173-178
Understanding Language Teaching
Propositions and Propositional Acts
Suppose that John asks, ‘Is the window open?’ and Mary replies, ‘The window is open.’ Then John and Mary have produced two distinct utterances, and in doing so, they have performed two different kinds of speech act. But clearly there is something that these utterances have in common. According to the standard theory of speech acts, in these utterances different illocutionary forces have been applied to the same propositional content. Similarly, i…
Professional women “rebalancing” in retirement
This is an interview-based study focused on how professional baby boomer women negotiate and narrate postretirement lives. This group came of age in the 1960s and represents a socially privileged segment of the baby boomer generation, a cohort that created new gendered pathways in employment. Today, these retired professional women are attempting to make sense of their multilayered complex and changing realities. In their accounts, the most salie…
Classroom Research in Second Language Acquisition
A sociocultural perspective of language and learning has had a major impact on classroom research on second language acquisition (SLA) over the last two decades. This perspective considers language to be a fundamentally social phenomenon, comprised of linguistic resources whose meanings are both embodied in and constitutive of everyday communication. Language learning is viewed as a collaborative process that begins in our regularly occurring com…
Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)