Steven Talmy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3481969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Talmy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Talmy |
| SIGNATURE | TALMY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8642-6456 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Critical Ethnography
Critical ethnography in applied linguistics is a politically engaged approach to examining language learning, teaching, and use across dimensions such as race, class, gender, and language. Critical ethnography reflexively combines participant observation, interviewing, and other ethnographic methods with critical social theories, including neo‐Marxist, postcolonial, feminist, and decolonial perspectives. Central to the approach is its focus on po…
Forever FOB: The cultural production of ESL in a high school
Employing a conceptual framework informed by theories of cultural production (Lave & Wenger 1991; Levinson & Holland 1996; O’Connor 2003; Willis 1977, 1981), and using notions of linguicism (e.g., Skutnabb-Kangas 2000) and identity “markedness” (Bucholtz & Hal 2004), I examine how an ESL subject position is locally produced by adolescents of Asian and Pacific Islander descent in one high school classroom. Arguing that “ESL” in this context signif…
A discursive constructionist approach to narrative in language teaching and learning research
Categorization in multilingual storytelling: Introduction
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Interaction in qualitative questionnaires: From self-report to intersubjective achievement
Survey questionnaires are among the most widely-used research methods in applied linguistics, adopted for everything from large-scale quantitative studies measuring social-psychological variables to qualitative studies that solicit participant views on a range of different topics. Despite the variety of purposes that survey questionnaires are used for, the most common approaches to analysis of the data they yield involve content analysis using de…
Bridging the Gap: Cognitive and Social Approaches to Research in Second Language Learning and Teaching
For some, research in learning and teaching of a second language (L2) runs the risk of disintegrating into irreconcilable approaches to L2 learning and use. On the one side, we find researchers investigating linguistic-cognitive issues, often using quantitative research methods including inferential statistics; on the other side, we find researchers working on the basis of sociocultural or sociocognitive views, often using qualitative research me…
Critical Ethnography
Critical ethnography in applied linguistics is an explicitly political approach to the empirical investigation of local occasions of language learning and use, and their connections to issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, identity, and language politics.
Theorizing Qualitative Research Interviews in Applied Linguistics
Interviews have long been used as a method in applied linguistics for the investigation of an extraordinary array of phenomena. In quantitative research, interviews have been used to generate insights into matters as varied as cognitive processes in language learning, lexical inferencing, motivation, language attitudes, program evaluation, language classroom pedagogy, language proficiency, and learner autonomy (see e.g. Brown 1988; Dörnyei 2007; …
The Interview as Collaborative Achievement: Interaction, Identity, and Ideology in a Speech Event
This article contrasts a common conceptualization of the interview in applied linguistics, referred to as an interview as research instrument perspective, with an alternative, referred to as a research interview as social practice orientation. It illustrates implications of the two perspectives on interviews by contrasting a thematic analysis concerning a social category in circulation at a Hawai‘i high school—‘fresh off the boat’—with two analys…
Advocating for English learners: Selected essays
Becoming “Local” in ESL: Racism as Resource in a Hawai‘i Public High School
Drawn from a 2.5 year critical ethnography in the ESL program of a Hawai'i public high school (Tradewinds High), this article examines racializing and racist conduct directed at Micronesian students by a group of old-timer ESL students, primarily of East/Southeast Asian inheritance.Racialization and racism directed at Micronesians positioned them as members of an out-group of FOBs (fresh off the boat) and served as resources for old-timer ESL stu…
Qualitative Interviews in Applied Linguistics: From Research Instrument to Social Practice
Interviews have been used for decades in empirical inquiry across the social sciences as one or the primary means of generating data. In applied linguistics, interview research has increased dramatically in recent years, particularly in qualitative studies that aim to investigate participants' identities, experiences, beliefs, and orientations toward a range of phenomena. However, despite the proliferation of interview research in qualitative app…
Second/Foreign Language Program Preservation and Advancement: Literatures and Lessons for Teachers and Teacher Education
In a period of declining state support for education, we argue S/FL teachers and teacher educators would do well to become oriented to language program preservation and advancement. We discuss three areas such an orientation could take, namely organizing, direct action, and fundraising, so that teachers and students can become more involved in decisions affecting their programs. Following a brief review of literatures in these three areas, we des…
Qualitative Interviews in Applied Linguistics: From Research Instrument to Social Practice
Interviews have been used for decades in empirical inquiry across the social sciences as one or the primary means of generating data. In applied linguistics, interview research has increased dramatically in recent years, particularly in qualitative studies that aim to investigate participants' identities, experiences, beliefs, and orientations toward a range of phenomena. However, despite the proliferation of interview research in qualitative app…
Bridging the Gap: Cognitive and Social Approaches to Research in Second Language Learning and Teaching
For some, research in learning and teaching of a second language (L2) runs the risk of disintegrating into irreconcilable approaches to L2 learning and use. On the one side, we find researchers investigating linguistic-cognitive issues, often using quantitative research methods including inferential statistics; on the other side, we find researchers working on the basis of sociocultural or sociocognitive views, often using qualitative research me…
Becoming “Local” in ESL: Racism as Resource in a Hawai‘i Public High School
Drawn from a 2.5 year critical ethnography in the ESL program of a Hawai'i public high school (Tradewinds High), this article examines racializing and racist conduct directed at Micronesian students by a group of old-timer ESL students, primarily of East/Southeast Asian inheritance.Racialization and racism directed at Micronesians positioned them as members of an out-group of FOBs (fresh off the boat) and served as resources for old-timer ESL stu…
A discursive constructionist approach to narrative in language teaching and learning research
Second/Foreign Language Program Preservation and Advancement: Literatures and Lessons for Teachers and Teacher Education
In a period of declining state support for education, we argue S/FL teachers and teacher educators would do well to become oriented to language program preservation and advancement. We discuss three areas such an orientation could take, namely organizing, direct action, and fundraising, so that teachers and students can become more involved in decisions affecting their programs. Following a brief review of literatures in these three areas, we des…
Advocating for English learners: Selected essays
Becoming “Local” in ESL: Racism as Resource in a Hawai‘i Public High School
Drawn from a 2.5 year critical ethnography in the ESL program of a Hawai'i public high school (Tradewinds High), this article examines racializing and racist conduct directed at Micronesian students by a group of old-timer ESL students, primarily of East/Southeast Asian inheritance.Racialization and racism directed at Micronesians positioned them as members of an out-group of FOBs (fresh off the boat) and served as resources for old-timer ESL stu…
Qualitative Interviews in Applied Linguistics: From Research Instrument to Social Practice
Interviews have been used for decades in empirical inquiry across the social sciences as one or the primary means of generating data. In applied linguistics, interview research has increased dramatically in recent years, particularly in qualitative studies that aim to investigate participants' identities, experiences, beliefs, and orientations toward a range of phenomena. However, despite the proliferation of interview research in qualitative app…
Theorizing Qualitative Research Interviews in Applied Linguistics
Interviews have long been used as a method in applied linguistics for the investigation of an extraordinary array of phenomena. In quantitative research, interviews have been used to generate insights into matters as varied as cognitive processes in language learning, lexical inferencing, motivation, language attitudes, program evaluation, language classroom pedagogy, language proficiency, and learner autonomy (see e.g. Brown 1988; Dörnyei 2007; …
The Interview as Collaborative Achievement: Interaction, Identity, and Ideology in a Speech Event
This article contrasts a common conceptualization of the interview in applied linguistics, referred to as an interview as research instrument perspective, with an alternative, referred to as a research interview as social practice orientation. It illustrates implications of the two perspectives on interviews by contrasting a thematic analysis concerning a social category in circulation at a Hawai‘i high school—‘fresh off the boat’—with two analys…
Critical Ethnography
Critical ethnography in applied linguistics is an explicitly political approach to the empirical investigation of local occasions of language learning and use, and their connections to issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, identity, and language politics.
Bridging the Gap: Cognitive and Social Approaches to Research in Second Language Learning and Teaching
For some, research in learning and teaching of a second language (L2) runs the risk of disintegrating into irreconcilable approaches to L2 learning and use. On the one side, we find researchers investigating linguistic-cognitive issues, often using quantitative research methods including inferential statistics; on the other side, we find researchers working on the basis of sociocultural or sociocognitive views, often using qualitative research me…
Interaction in qualitative questionnaires: From self-report to intersubjective achievement
Survey questionnaires are among the most widely-used research methods in applied linguistics, adopted for everything from large-scale quantitative studies measuring social-psychological variables to qualitative studies that solicit participant views on a range of different topics. Despite the variety of purposes that survey questionnaires are used for, the most common approaches to analysis of the data they yield involve content analysis using de…
Categorization in multilingual storytelling: Introduction
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A discursive constructionist approach to narrative in language teaching and learning research
Forever FOB: The cultural production of ESL in a high school
Employing a conceptual framework informed by theories of cultural production (Lave & Wenger 1991; Levinson & Holland 1996; O’Connor 2003; Willis 1977, 1981), and using notions of linguicism (e.g., Skutnabb-Kangas 2000) and identity “markedness” (Bucholtz & Hal 2004), I examine how an ESL subject position is locally produced by adolescents of Asian and Pacific Islander descent in one high school classroom. Arguing that “ESL” in this context signif…
Critical Ethnography
Critical ethnography in applied linguistics is a politically engaged approach to examining language learning, teaching, and use across dimensions such as race, class, gender, and language. Critical ethnography reflexively combines participant observation, interviewing, and other ethnographic methods with critical social theories, including neo‐Marxist, postcolonial, feminist, and decolonial perspectives. Central to the approach is its focus on po…
Sociology (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works)