Margaret A. DuFon

Associate Professor

EFL Coordinator

California State University-Chico

Department Of English

Chico, California 95929-0830

 

 
 

Office
 Taylor 218

Phone
 (530) 898-6151

e-mail
 mdufon@csuchico.edu

 

Education

 

University	Degree	Major	Year
University of Hawaii-Manoa	PhD	Second Language Acquisition	1999
University of Hawaii-Manoa	MA	English as a Second Language	1991
University of Wisconsin-Madison	MS	Communicative Disorders	1973
Purdue University-W. Lafayette	BS	Speech & Hearing Therapy	1972

Research

Dissertation Abstract

The Acquisition of Linguistic Politeness in Indonesian as a Second Language by Sojourners in Naturalistic Interactions

 This dissertation investigates the acquisition of linguistic politeness by six learners (three beginners and three intermediates) of Indonesian as a Second Language during a four-month study-abroad program in Malang, East Java, Indonesia.  The investigation is theoretically informed by acquisitional perspectives in interlanguage pragmatics and language socialization.  For politeness, the study engaged Brown and Levinson’s (1987) Face Threat Model and Fraser’s (1990) Conversational Contract Model, and emic categories of politeness in Indonesian and Javanese.  Methodologically, an ethnographic approach was used to collect and analyze data from a variety of sources including transcripts of tape-recorded naturalistic interactions between the learners and native speakers, dialog journals kept by the learners, fieldnotes from participant-observation, interviews, questionnaires and site documents.  Three pragmatic features were selected for in-depth analysis: 1) experience questions and their negative responses, tidak (no) and belum (not yet); 2) greetings, and 3) terms of address.  Each of these was analyzed in order to determine how they were used by native speakers and learners, how the learners changed in their understanding and use of these features over time, how the native speakers socialized the learners into Javanese Indonesian culture through their distribution of linguistic forms according to situational variables, and the linguistic, social and cognitive factors that enabled and impeded the learners’ progress.

Current research interests

• Language Acquisition in Study Abroad Contexts 
• Second Language Socialization
• Interlanguage Pragmatics
• Language and Identity in SLA
• The acquisition of linguistic politeness in Indonesian as a foreign language.
• Contemplation in the Curriculum

Selected Publications

EDITED BOOKS

DuFon, Margaret A.  & Churchill, Eton (Eds.) (2006). Language Learners in Study Abroad Contexts.  Clevedon: Multilingual Matters

 

TEACHING MATERIALS (2 Videotapes + Accompanying Text)

DuFon, Margaret A. (2004) Mari Belajar Sopan Santun Bahasa Indonesia [Let’s Study Politeness in Indonesian Language]. Honolulu: National Foreign Language Resource Center.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

Churchill, Eton &  DuFon, Margaret A. (2006). Evolving Threads in Study Abroad Research. In Language Learners in Study Abroad Contexts (pp. 1-27). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

DuFon, Margaret A. (2006). The Socialization of Taste during Study Abroad in Indonesia. In Language Learners in Study Abroad Contexts (pp. 91-119). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

DuFon, Margaret A. (2003). Gift Giving in Indonesian: A Model for Teaching Pragmatic Routines in the Foreign Language Classroom of the Less Commonly Taught Languages. In Ana Fernández, Alicia Martínez & Esther Usó (eds.). Pragmatic Competence and Foreign Language Teaching (pp. 109-131). Castellón: Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I.

Kasper, Gabriele & Margaret A DuFon. (2000). La pragmática de la interlengua desde una perspectiva evolutiva, [Interlanguage Pragmatics from a Developmental Perspective].  In Carmen Muñoz (ed.), Segundas lenguas: Adquisición en el aula [Second Languages: Acquisition in the Classroom] (pp 231-257) Barcelona: Ariel. 

 

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

DuFon, Margaret A. (2004). Producing a Video for Teaching Pragmatics in the Second or Foreign Language Classroom. Prospect 19:1, 65-83.

DuFon, Margaret A. (2002). Video Recording in Ethnographic SLA Research: Some Issues of Validity in Data Collection.  Language Learning & Technology 6:1, 40-59

DuFon, Margaret A. (2001). Triangulation in Qualitative SLA Research on Interlanguage Pragmatics. In Xenia Bonch-Bruevich, William J. Crawford, John Hellermann, Christina Higgins, & Hanh Nguyen (eds.), The past, present, and future of second language research: Selected proceedings of the 2000 Second Language Research Forum (pp. 251-270).  Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

DuFon, Margaret A. (2000).  The Acquisition of Negative Responses to Experience Questions in Indonesian as a Second Language by Sojourners in Naturalistic Interactions.  In Michael Anderson, Carol A. Klee, Frank A. Morris, Elaine Tarone & Bonnie Swierzbin, (editors) Interaction of Social and Cognitive Factors in SLA: Selected Proceedings of the 1999 Second Language Research Forum (pp. 77-97).  Cascadilla Press, Somerville, MA.

DuFon, Margaret A.  (1998).  Learning the Language and Culture of Indonesia: A Diary Study of the Acquisition of the Tea Routine in Javanese Indonesia.  Journal of Southeast Asian Language Teaching VII, 60-96.

DuFon, Margaret A.  (1995).  The Acquisition of Gambits by Classroom Foreign Language Learners of Indonesian.  In Mark Alves (ed.), Papers from the Third Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society 1993 (pp. 27-42).  Tempe, AZ:  Arizona State University, Program for Southeast Asian Studies.

DuFon, Margaret, Gabriele Kasper, Satomi Takahashi & Naoko Yoshinaga.  (1994).  Bibliography on Linguistic Politeness.  Journal of Pragmatics 21, 527-578.

Jacobs, George M., Peggy DuFon, and Fong Cheng Hong.  (1994).  L1 and L2 Vocabulary Glosses in L2 Reading Passages:  Their Effectiveness for Increasing Comprehension and Vocabulary Knowledge.  Journal of Research in Reading 17: 1, 19-28.

DuFon, Margaret A.  (1993).  Referential and Relational Meaning in Interpreted Discourse.  Journal of Pragmatics 20, 533-558.

DuFon, Margaret A.  (1993).  Research Issues (Ethics in TESOL Research) TESOL Quarterly 27:1, 157-160.

Recent Conference Presentations

 

VETTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
International Association of Applied Linguistics Madison, Wisconsin Colloquium on Language Development and Negotiation of Identities in Study Abroad Language acquisition and the negotiation of religious identity in Indonesia	2005
Pragmatics and Language Learning Bloomington, Indiana Context, Individual Differences and Pragmatic Development during Study Abroad	2005
American Association of Applied Linguistics Portland, Oregon Colloquium on Intercultural Pragmatics Second Language Socialization and the Acquisition of Pragmatic Competence	2004
American Association of Applied Linguistics Salt Lake City, Utah The Acquisition of Gift Giving Routines by L2 learners of Indonesian	2002
Pacific Second Language Research Forum (PacSLRF) Honolulu, HI Colloquium on Second Language Acquisition in Study Abroad Contexts The Socialization of Taste During Study Abroad in Indonesia	2001
INVITED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
JALT (Japan Association of Language Teachers) Shizuoka, Japan Invited Colloquium: Pragmatic Development in Study Abroad Contexts Learners’ Stories of Learning Pragmatics from Native Speakers	2005
CATESOL Pasadena, CA Invited Colloquium: Teaching pragmatics in the L2 classroom: Where language & culture meet Organizers: Margaret A. DuFon (CSU-Chico) & Julie Kerekes (CSU-LA) Pragmatic Socialization in Children: Implications for the Classroom	2003
INVITED LECTURES
Afghan Women’s Literacy Project California State University-Chico Teaching Reading Strategies	2005
Excellence in Teaching Professional Development Seminar (for teachers from Central Asia) California State University-Chico Critical Thinking and Language Teaching	2002-2004

 

Courses Taught at CSU-Chico

  

Graduate Courses
ENGL 332	Advanced Theories of SLA	Spring 2001, 2002, 2003
ENGL 326	Topics in Contemporary Linguistics (Interlanguage Pragmatics)	Spring 2004
Undergraduate Courses
ENGL 470	Second Language Acquisition	Fall 2000-2006 Spring 2001, 2003-2006
ENGL 478	Linguistic Approaches to Reading	Spring 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006
ENGL 371	Principles of Language	Fall 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
EFL 17	English as a Foreign Language	Fall 2000, 2001, 2002

 

Previous Academic Positions

 

 

Professional Work Experience Abroad

 

 

 Memberships

Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education

 

American Speech Language and Hearing Association
 

Other Interests
Hiking
Agility training with my dog, Fanny
Traveling
Painting
Yoga
Meditation