Kim McDonough - Concordia University

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Kim.McDonough@concordia.ca

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Kim McDonough website

Biography

Kim McDonough is Professor in Applied Linguistics who joined the Department of Education at Concordia in 2010. Her research interests include psycholinguistic approaches to second language acquisition, classroom-based research, second language writing development, and task-based language teaching. Her interests also include the development of oral and written communicative tasks to promote peer interaction in foreign language classrooms, the identification of visual cues during face-to-face conversation, and the assessment of disciplinary writing.

Education

PhD Applied Linguistics, Georgetown University, 2001
MA TESOL, Michigan State University, 1998
BA Political Science and Studies in Religion, University of Michigan, 1992

Professional experience

Professor, Applied Linguistics, Concordia University, 2015-present
Associate Professor, Applied Linguistics, Concordia University, 2010-2015
Associate Professor, Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona University, 2008-2010
Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona University, 2005-2008
Assistant Professor, DEIL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001-2005

Research activities

Current Projects

Dr. McDonough’s current research projects are exploring the occurrence of linguistic and reverse linguistic stereotyping among university students and university students' experiences with discrimination

Current Grants

McDonough, K., & Trofimovich, P. (2023-2027). Identifying and mitigating discrimination in higher education settings. Insight Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), $204,006.

McLarnon, M., & McDonough, K. (2023-2024). Community-based gardening for literacy and food security. Office of Vice-Provost for Research and Graduate Studies, Sustainable Transitions Team Research Initiative, Concordia University, $20,000.

Publications

Forthcoming Publications

Zheng, C., Trofimovich, P., Lindberg, R., McDonough, K., & Sato, M. (accepted). Do they like me? Exploring the role of meta perception in L1–L2speaker interaction. Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

Recent Publications

Irvine, K, Neumann, H., McDonough, K., Corrigan, J., & Jiminez, M. (2024). Thinking critically in an age of disinformation: Lessons to enhance digital literacies in the second language classroom. Reflexions, 43(2), 11-14 .

McDonough, K., Lindberg, R.,Kim, Y.L., & Trofimovich, P. (2024).Raising business communication students’ awareness of nonverbal features of interaction. Language Awareness, 33(2),224-239.

Kim, Y., Liu, C.,Trofimovich, P., & McDonough, K. (2024). Is nonverbal behavior during conversation related to perceived fluency? TESOL Journal, e795. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesj.795Published online 12 February 2024.

Lindberg, R., Stotz, Q., Ammar, A., & McDonough, K. (2024). L’écriture collaborative dans des cours de français langue seconde : un résumé de trois études. La Revue de AQEFLS, 36(1),1–12. https://doi.org/10.7202/1108569ar

Trofimovich, P., Lindberg, R., Bodea,A., Le, T.-N. N., Zheng, C., & McDonough, K. (2023). I don’t think you like me: Examining meta perceptions of interpersonal liking in second language academic interaction. Languages, 8, Article 200.

McDonough, K., Liu, C., & Trofimovich, P. (2023). ELF university students’ strategies for avoiding misunderstanding.ELT Journal, 77(4), 426-434. https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccad025

Tsunemoto, A., Uludag, P., McDonough, K., & Isaacs, T. (2023). Exploring the relationship between L2 English listeners’ perceived fluency ratings and temporal speech measures. JALT Journal, 45(1), 107-121.

Nagle, C., Trofimovich, P.,Tekin, O., & McDonough, K. (2023). Framing second language comprehensibility: Do interlocutors’ ratings predict their perceived communicative experience? Applied Psycholinguistics. Published online 13February 2023. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716423000073

McDonough, K., Lindberg, R., Trofimovich, P., & Tekin, O. (2023). The visual component of non-understanding: A systematic replication of McDonough, Trofimovich, Lu,& Abashidze (2019). Language Teaching, 56(1), 113-127.

Teaching activities

Graduate Courses

Research methods (Concordia, APLI 660)
Second language acquisition (Concordia, APLI 621)
Pragmatics (Concordia, APLI 643)
Quantitative Research Methods (Concordia, EDUC 806)
Doctoral Seminar in Education (Concordia, EDUC 800)
Fundamentals of second language learning and teaching
Psycholinguistics
Cross cultural aspects of language learning
Topics in ESL: Task-based language teaching
PhD seminar: Interaction in SLA

Undergraduate Courses

Language acquisition (Concordia, TESL 341)

Modern English grammar (Concordia, TESL 232)

English grammar (Concordia, TESL 231)

Language in the US
English grammar and usage
Introduction to linguistics
Introduction to English grammar
Senior seminar: Language acquisition

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