Yumi Matsumoto, Ph.D.
松本 由美
RESUME
Professional
info
I'm an Applied Linguist and educator, specializing English as a lingua franca/World Englishes, intercultural education, humor construction, gesture and L2 learning/development, and L2 teacher professional development. I received a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics in August 2015, and I am going to join Graduate School of Education at University of Pennsylvania from this Fall.
I am originaly from Japan, but I've lived in the U.S. for more than 9 years, identifying myself multilingual and multicultural.
Teaching licenses/Certificates in Japan
English language teacher (junior and high school)
Elementary school teacher
Work
experience
Assistant Professor.
Educational Linguistics division
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania
2016 - present
Visiting Assistant Professor.
Department of Applied Linguistics
University of Massachusetts Boston
2015 - 2016
Fall 2015
Cross-Cultural Perspectives (APLING 603)
Theories and Principles of Language Teaching (APLING 605)
Foundations of Bilingual/Multicultural Education Online (APLING 614)
Spring 2016
Cross-Cultural Perspectives (APLING 603)
Theories and Principles of Language Teaching (APLING 605)
Graduate Reserach/Teaching Assistant.
Department of Applied Linguistics
Pennsylvania State University
2010 - 2015
August 2012- May 2013
Graduate Research Assistant
Worked for Center for Research on English Language Learning and Teaching (CRELLT) directed by Dr. Joan K. Hall
August 2010 – Spring 2015
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate Instructor (co-teaching)
World Englishes (APLING 574) Fall 2012
Co-taught World Englishes course to graduate students with Dr. Canagarajah
Global English (APLING 210) Spring 2012
Co-taught World Englishes course to undergraduate students with Dr. Makoni
Graduate Teaching Assistant (individual teaching)
Composition for American Academic Communication II
American Oral English for International Teaching Assistants (ITA) I
American Oral English for International Teaching Assistants (ITA) II
American Oral English for International Teaching Assistants (ITA) Ⅲ
Intensive English Communication Program at Pennsylvania State University
English Grammar Level 3 (low-intermediate level)
English Reading Level 1 (high-beginner level)
Graduate Teaching Assistant.
Hawaii English Language Program
University of Hawaii at Manoa
January 2006 - December 2006
Creative writing , Reading novels, Advanced TOEFL grammar, (low-intermediate)
Basic TOEFL, TOEIC strategies (high-beginner level)
Languages
Japanese (native)
English (near-native)
Chinese (inter-mediate)
German (beginner)
Education
Pennsylvania State University
Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics
2010 - 2015
Title: “Multimodal communicative strategies for resolving miscommunication in multilingua writing classrooms.”
Supervised by Dr. Suresh Canagarajah.
My dissertation closely examines multilingual ELF speakers’ communicative strategies of resolving miscommunication in the context of ESL writing classrooms in an U.S. university. It attempts to
identity the unique functions of a range of multimodal interactional resources that ELF speakers employ along with verbal speech, such as gestures, embodied actions, non-verbal vocalization, silence, and material objects in the classroom environment. My dissertation work expands the notion of communicative competence of ELF speakers through integrating their use of non-verbal, embodied, and multimodal resources, since ELF pragmatics research has so far focused only on verbal speech.
University of Hawaii at Manoa
MA in Second Language Studies
(focus on English language teaching)
2004 - 2006
University of Okayama
BA in Elementary School Education
1994 - 1998