Education

• Ph. D., Linguistics, University of Georgia
• M.A., TESOL, Carson-Newman University

Areas of Specialization

• Conversation Analysis
• Classroom Interaction
• International Teaching Assistants 

Recent Courses

• APLNG 410 Teaching American English Pronunciation
• APLNG 597 Introduction to Conversation Analysis
• APLNG 586 Analyzing Classroom Discourse
• APLNG 83 First Year Seminar in Applied Linguistics
• APLNG 491 Theory: Second Language Acquisition

Selected Publications

Articles

Looney, S. D. (in press). Classroom Teasing: Institutional Contingencies and Embodied Action. Discourse Studies.

Looney, S. D. and He, Y. (in press). Laughter and Smiling: Sequential Resources for Managing Delayed and Disaligning Responses. Classroom Discourse.

Hall, J. K. and Looney, S. D. (2021). The role of self-talk in downgrading an L2 teacher's certainty about grammar matters. TESOL Quarterly 55(1), 185-218.

Looney, S. D. and Kim, J. (2018). Humor, Uncertainty, and Affiliation: Cooperative and Co-Operative Action in the University Science Lab. Linguistics and Education 46, 56-69.

Looney, S. D., Jia, D. and Kimura, D. (2017). Self-Directed Okay in Mathematics Lectures. Journal of Pragmatics, 107, 46-59.

Books

Looney, S. D., and Bhalla, S. (eds) (2019). A Transdisciplinary Approach to International Teaching Assistants: Perspectives from Applied Linguistics. Bristol, U.K.: Multilingual Matters.

Hall, J. K. and Looney, S. D. (eds) (2019). The Embodied Work of Teaching. Bristol, U.K.: Multilingual Matters.

Book Chapters

Looney, S. D. (2019). Co-operative Action: Addressing Misunderstanding and Displaying Uncertainty in the Undergraduate Physics Lab. In A Translingual Approach to International Teaching Assistants. Eds., Looney, S. D., and Bhalla, S. Bristol, U.K.: Multilingual Matters.

Looney, S. D. and Kim, J. (2019). Managing Disaligning Responses: Sequence and Embodiment in Third Turn Teases. In J. K. Hall and S. D. Looney (eds), The Embodied Work of Teaching. Bristol, U.K.: Multilingual Matters.

Looney, S. D. (2015). Interaction and discourse markers in the ITA-led Physics Laboratory. In G. Gorsuch  (Ed.), Talking matters: Research on Talk and Communication of International Teaching Assistants.  Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press.