Yumi Matsumoto, Ph.D.
松本 由美
Major Research Projects
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Project | 01 "Pedagogical gestures as interactional resources for teaching tense and aspect in the ESL classroom"
This new project sequentially analyzes the pedagogical functions of gestures among students and teachers for teaching and learning English grammar in ESL grammar class interactions, using sociocultural theory.
Matsumoto, Y. & Dobs, A. (forthcoming). Pedagogical gestures as interactional resources for teaching tense and aspect in the ESL classroom. Language Learning, 66 (4) appear in December 2016.
Project | 02
Project | 02 "Collaborative co-construction of humorous interaction among ELF speakers."
My research interests also include unique, various functions of laughter and humor in English as a lingua franca interactional contexts. Through employing a sequential analysis, I closely analyze how interactants with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds can successfully construct humor.
Matsumoto, Y. (2014). Collaborative co-construction of humorous interaction among ELF speaker. Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, 3(1), 81-107.
Project | 03 "ELF intercultural communication and multimodal communicative strategies for resolving miscommunication"
My core research situates in English as a lingua franca intercultural communication. In my dissertation work, I have developed a new multimodal orientation to ELF by coducting multilmodal and embodied analysis. I am interested in ELF pragmatics, in particular non-verbal communicative strategies of ELF speakers.
Matsumoto (2015). Unpublished dissertation “Multimodal communicative strategies for resolving miscommunication in multilingual writing classrooms.”
Matsumoto, Y. (2011). Successful ELF communications and implications for ELT: Sequential analysis on ELF
pronunciation negotiation strategies. Modern Language Journal, 95(1), 97-114.
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