2011 "Incorporating CA into an interaction awareness task" Presented at International JALT
Conference, Tokyo, 19 November.
2011 "Accomplishing Multiethnic Identity in Mundane Talk" Presented at Mixed Roots Forum,
Osaka University, 7 July.
2011 "Socially-accomplishing “awe” in a second language" Presented at IPrA, Manchester
UK, 5 July.
2011 "Follow-up turns in L2 talk" Presented at Otaru University of Commerce, Hokkaido on 19
May.
2011 "Deviating from the script: Follow-up turns in L2 talk" Presented at JALT Pan-SIG
conference, Shinshu University, 21 May.
2011 "Socially Accomplishing "Awe" in L2 Talk" Presented at the American Association of
Applied Linguistics Conference, Chicago, USA, March 26.
2010 "Establishing reference in L2 interaction"
Presented at the Japan Association for Language Teaching International
Conference, Nagoya, Japan, November 21.
2010 “Oh or awe? An interactional practice for doing being impressed” Presented at the 2nd
L2Talk Workshop, Yokohama, March 24.
2009 "Codeswitching and Medium-repair among Novice Speakers of English" at Korean
Association of Language Teachers (KATE) Conference,Seoul, Korea. July 3-4.
May 23.
2008 “Pivots and rounds. Turn-taking practices in small-group oral proficiency tests"
Presented at the Second Language Research Forum. University of Hawai’i, USA,
October 18.
2008 "Testness in Talk: Turn-taking Practices among EFL Learners during Oral
Proficiency Tests" Presented at the Japan Association for Language Teaching
PanSIG Conference, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, May 10.
2008 "This kid's a haafu: Accomplishing multiethnic identity through reported
ascriptions" Presented at TUJ Applied Linguistics Colloquium, Temple University,
Tokyo, Japan, February 10.
2007 “Receipt Through Repetition”.
Presented at the Japan Association for Language Teaching International
Conference, Tokyo, Japan, November 24.
2007 “Pronunciation Tasks for Academic Study Skills”.
Presented at the Japan Association for Language Teaching International
Conference, Tokyo, Japan, November 25.
2007 "I don’t trust you but could I put it like this?: Accomplishing (non)nativeness in
bilingual interaction" at 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Göteborg,
Sweden, July 10.
2007 “Switching Languages, Juggling Identities: A sequence of multilingual,
multi-party talk” Presented at the 17th Pragmatics and Language Learning
Conference, University of Hawai’i, USA, March 26.
2006 “Multiethnic Identity in Interaction: A CA perspective”.
Presented in a forum on "Research approaches to bilingual and ethnic identity"
at the Japan Association for Language Teaching International Conference,
Kokura, Japan, November 4.
2006 “Suppressing Laughter in the Display of (Dis)afflitiation”. Presented at the Japan
Sociolinguistic Sciences, Hokkai Gakuen University, Hokkaido, Japan,
August 26.
2006 “Accomplishing Difference in Bilingual Interaction: Translation as backwards-
oriented medium repair”. Presented at the 16th Sociolinguistics Symposium,
Limerick University, Ireland, July 8.
2006 “Post-exclusionary Translation in Bilingual Interaction”. Presented at the Japan
Association for Language Teaching PanSIG Conference, Shimizu, Shizuoka,
Japan, May 13.
2006 “Bilingual Interaction: How do they communicate in Japanese and English?”
Invited lecture at Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, January 17.
2005 “Institutionally Justifying an English-Only Policy”.
Presented at the Japan Association for Language Teaching
National Conference, Shizuoka, Japan, October 8.
2005 “Code-switching: Alternating between Japanese and English in bilingual
interaction." Invited lecture at the Okayama Chapter of JALT,
Okayama, Japan, January 17.
2004 “Accomplishing Discursive Identity in Bilingual Interaction”.
Presented in a colloquium on "Applying Conversation Analysis to Nonnative
and Bilingual Talk" at the Japan Association for Language Teaching
National Conference, Nara, Japan, November 20.
2004 “Multi-ethnic Identity in an International School”. Presented in the
Multi-ethnic Identity colloquium at the Japan Association for Language
Teaching National Conference, Nara, Japan, November 21.
2004 “Adapting the Doman Method with PowerPoint”.
Presented in a colloquium on "Innovative uses of Technology in
Bilingual Education"at the Japan Association for Language Teaching
National Conference, Nara, Japan, November 20.
2004 “Stylized Japanese English among Multiethnic Japanese”.
Presented at TUJ Applied Linguistics Colloquium, Temple University,
Tokyo, Japan, February 15.
2003 “Using Peer-reviewed Group Portfolios for Speaking”.
Poster presentation at Japan Association for Language Teaching
National Conference, Shizuoka, Japan, November 22.
2003 “Ways Multi-ethnic Japanese teenagers discursively index cultural Identity”.
Presented at Japan Association for Language Teaching Hokkaido Conference,
Sapporo, Japan, November 9.
2003 “Multi-ethnic Identity and an English-only Policy at an International School”.
Presented at The First International Conference on Pedagogy and Learning,
University of Southern Queensland, Australia, October 2.
2003 “Multi-ethnic Japanese Teenagers: bilingual conversation and identity”.
Presented at The JALT Hokkaido Forum on Bilingualism,
Sapporo, Japan, June 14.
2003 “Transcription Approaches to Multi-lingual Discourse Analysis”.
Poster presentation at The Kyoto JALT Pan-SIG conference,
Kyoto, Japan, May 10.
2003 “Co-constructing Identity: The use of ‘haafu’ by a group of bilingual
multi-ethnic Japanese teenagers” .
Presented at The 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism ,
Arizona University USA, May 2.
2003 “Conversation Analysis and the Co-construction of Identity”.
Presented at the Research Collective on Ethnomethodology,
Hokkaido University Japan, April, 12.
2002 “Multicultural Japan”.
Presented at Hokkaido University Summer School,
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, July 5.May 12.
2002 “Half or Double? Chosen and Ascribed Referents for ‘Biracial’ Japanese”.
Presented at The Bilingual Development Forum, Kyoto, Japan, May 12.
2001 “Biracial Identity: Second Language, Third Culture”.
Presented at Japan Association for Language Teaching National Conference,
Kitakyushu, Japan, November 23.
2001 “Dangerous English”.
Presented at public lecture series: The English You Didn’t Learn in School
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, June 13.
1999 “The Future of Japan's Junior Colleges:
Ronin, Ritual Men and Collaborative Individualism”. Presented as an online
seminar conducted in conjunction with the University of Southern Queensland,
November 22-26.
2011 "Taking CA to the classroom" Panel held at
JALT, Tokyo, 19 November.
2011 "Raising Bilingual Children in Japan". Panel at
JALT Kobe (Moderator and co-organizer)
September 24.
2011 "From Research to Praxis: Taking Conversation
Analysis into the Classroom" at 13th Temple
University Japan Applied Linguistics
Colloquium. February 13 (Panelist)
2009 "Towards Global Excellence in Foreign
Language Education: Technology and
Classroom Interaction" at Kobe University,
November 26. (Organizer and Chair)
2009 "e-Learning in Higher Education"
at Kobe University, Japan. January 31.
(Invited commentator)
2008 "Kobe University's Short-term Overseas
Study Tour Programs: Looking back, looking
forward" at Kobe University,
Japan. November 12. (Organizer)
2008 “Discourse Analysis and Identity”.
Held at the Japan Association for Language
Teaching International Conference, Tokyo,
Japan, November 1.
2004 “Accomplishing Discursive Identity in
Bilingual Interaction”. Presented in a
colloquium on "Applying Conversation
Analysis to Nonnative and Bilingual Talk" at
the Japan Association for Language
Teaching National Conference, Nara, Japan,
November 20.