Research

In my research, I use close analysis of classroom discourse to examine how student and teacher identities are institutionally imposed, socially negotiated, and actively transformed in interaction.

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• Talmy, S. (2027). Resisting ESL at a Hawai'i high school: Identity, ideology, and order at Tradewinds High.
  Routledge
• Prior, M. T., & Talmy, S. (2026). CA and qualitative research interviews.
  In T. Greer & M. J. Burdelski (Eds.), Routledge handbook of conversation analysis. Routledge
• Talmy, S. (2025). CA and MCA to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI): A case for motivated looking.
  Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 4(1), 100185
• Talmy, S. (2025). Critical ethnography.
  In C. Chapelle (Ed.), The encyclopedia of applied linguistics (2nd ed.). Wiley
• Prior, M. T., & Talmy, S. (2021). A discursive constructionist approach to narrative in language teaching and learning research.
  System, 102, 102595, 1–11
• Atkinson, D., Okada, H., & Talmy, S. (2021). Discourse analysis and ethnography.
  In K. Hyland, B. Paltridge, & L. C. Wong (Eds.), Bloomsbury handbook of discourse analysis (pp. 235–248). London: Bloomsbury
• Prior, M. T., & Talmy, S. (2019). A discursive psychological approach to the analysis of talk and text in applied linguistics.
  In J. McKinley & H. Rose (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of research methods in applied linguistics (pp. 474–487). London: Routledge
• Prior, M. T., & Talmy, S. (2019). Categorization in multilingual storytelling: Introduction.
  Pragmatics and Society, 10, 329–336
• Prior, M., & Talmy, S. (Eds.). (2019). Categorization in multilingual storytelling. [Special issue].
  Pragmatics & Society, 10(3)
• Wernicke, M., & Talmy, S. (2018). Interaction in qualitative questionnaires: From self-report to intersubjective achievement.
  Applied Linguistics Review, 9(4), 513–537
• Talmy, S. (2016). Becoming "Local" in ESL: Racism as resource in a Hawai'i public high school.
  In I. Piller (Ed.), Language and migration: Critical concepts in linguistics (vol. IV, pp. 235–260). Routledge
• Talmy, S., & Early, M. (2016). Knowledge mobilization and innovation in the development of a PBL cohort for teaching English Language Learners: Successes, challenges, possibilities.
  In M. Filipenko & J. Naslund (Eds.), Problem based learning in teacher education (pp. 41–56). Springer
• Talmy, S. (2015). A language socialization perspective on identity work of ESL youth in a superdiverse high school classroom.
  In N. Markee (Ed.), Handbook of classroom discourse and interaction (pp. 353–368). New York: Wiley Blackwell
• Talmy, S. (2015). Critical research in applied linguistics.
  In B. Paltridge & A. Phakiti (Eds.), Research methods in applied linguistics: A practical resource (pp. 153–168). London: Bloomsbury
• Hulstijn, J., Young, R., Ortega, L., Bigelow, M., DeKeyser, R., Ellis, N., Lantolf, J., Mackey, A., & Talmy, S. (2014). Bridging the gap: Cognitive and social approaches to research in second language learning and teaching.
  Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 36(3), 361–421 · doi:10.1017/S0272263114000035
• Talmy, S. (2012). Second language socialization.
  Routledge encyclopedia of second language acquisition (pp. 571–575). New York: Routledge
• Talmy, S. (2012). Critical ethnography.
  The encyclopedia of applied linguistics. Wiley Blackwell
• Atkinson, D., Okada, H., & Talmy, S. (2011). Ethnography and discourse analysis.
  In K. Hyland & B. Paltridge (Eds.), Continuum companion to discourse analysis (pp. 85–100). London: Continuum
• Duff, P. A., & Talmy, S. (2011). Language socialization approaches to second language acquisition: Social, cultural, and linguistic development in additional languages.
  In D. Atkinson (Ed.), Alternative approaches to second language acquisition (pp. 95–116). Routledge
• Talmy, S., & Richards, K. (Eds.). (2011). Qualitative interviews in applied linguistics: Discursive perspectives. [Special issue].
  Applied Linguistics, 32(1)
• Talmy, S., & Richards, K. (2011). Theorizing qualitative research interviews in applied linguistics.
  Applied Linguistics, 32, 1–5 [Special issue]
• Talmy, S. (2011). The interview as collaborative achievement: Interaction, identity, and ideology in a speech event.
  Applied Linguistics, 32, 25–42 [Special issue]
• Talmy, S. (2010). Achieving distinction through Mock ESL: A critical pragmatics analysis of classroom talk in a high school.
  In G. Kasper, H. t. Nguyen, D. Yoshimi, & J. Yoshioka (Eds.), Pragmatics and language learning (pp. 215–254). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i, National Foreign Language Resource Center
• Talmy, S. (2010). Becoming "Local" in ESL: Racism as resource in a Hawai'i public high school.
  Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 36, 36–57
• Talmy, S. (2010). Critical research in applied linguistics.
  In B. Paltridge & A. Phakiti (Eds.), Continuum companion to research methods in applied linguistics (pp. 127–142). London: Continuum
• Talmy, S. (2010). Qualitative interviews in applied linguistics: From research instrument to social practice.
  Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 30, 128–148
• Talmy, S. (2010). Review of Advocating for English learners: Selected essays, by James Crawford (2008).
  International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 13, 122–125
• Talmy, S. (2009). "A very important lesson": Respect and the socialization of order(s) in high school ESL.
  Linguistics and Education, 20, 235–253 [Special issue]
• Talmy, S. (2009). Forever FOB?: Resisting and reproducing the Other in high school ESL.
  In A. Reyes & A. Lo (Eds.), Beyond Yellow English: Toward a linguistic anthropology of Asian Pacific America (pp. 347–365). New York: Oxford University Press
• Talmy, S. (2009). Resisting ESL: Categories and sequence in a critically "motivated" analysis of classroom interaction.
  In G. Kasper & H. t. Nguyen (Eds.), Talk-in-interaction: Multilingual perspectives. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i, National Foreign Language Resource Center
• Talmy, S. (2008). The cultural productions of the ESL student at Tradewinds High: Contingency, multidirectionality, and identity in L2 socialization.
  Applied Linguistics, 29, 619–644
• Talmy, S. (2006). The other Other: Micronesians in a Hawai'i high school.
  In C. C. Park, A. L. Goodwin, & S. J. Lee (Eds.), Asian and Pacific American education: Learning, socialization, and identity (pp. 19–49). Greenwich, CT: Information Age
• Talmy, S. (2005). Review of Medium of instruction policies: Which agenda? Whose agenda?, by James W. Tollefson & Amy B. M. Tsui (Eds.) (2004).
  Language Teaching Research, 9, 137–142
• Talmy, S. (2004). Forever FOB: The cultural production of ESL in a high school.
  Pragmatics, 14(2/3), 149–172 [Special double issue]
• Crookes, G., & Talmy, S. (2004). S/FL program preservation and advancement: Literatures and lessons for teachers and teacher education.
  Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 1, 219–236