John Hellermann

John Hellermann


Professor

Applied Linguistics - Liberal Arts & Sciences

Office
UCB 335E
Hours
Tue: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Fri: 2:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Phone
(503) 725-8732

Courses Taught

  • LING 390: Introduction to Linguistics
  • LING 410/510: Special Topics: Conversation Analysis
  • LING 414/514: Linguistic Pragmatics
  • LING 416/516: Discourse Analysis
  • LING 435: Theory and Practice in Applied Linguistics
  • LING 438/538: Second Language Acquisition
  • LING 490/590: History of the English Language

Research Interests

  • Co-construction of language structure (especially features of sound production) and learning
  • Mapping language use in Portland, Oregon
  • Theories of Linguistics

Representative Publications

  • Sydorenko, T., Thorne, S. L., Hellermann, J., Sanchez, A., & Howe, V. (2021). Directives and the organization of task formation in augmented reality game interaction. Modern Language Journal.
  • Thorne, S. L., Hellermann, J., & Jakonen, T. (2021). Rewilding language education: Emergent assemblages and entangled actions. Modern Language Journal.
  • Hellermann, J. & Thorne, S. L. (2020). 'Distributed' language for learning in the wild. In S. Conrad, A. Hartig, & L. Santelmann (Eds.)., Cambridge introduction to applied linguistics. (264-277). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • Sydorenko, T., Hellermann, J., Thorne, S. L., & Howe, V. (2019). Mobile augmented reality and language-related episodes. TESOL Quarterly, 53(3), 712-740. DOI: 10.1002/tesq.507
  • Hellermann, J., Thorne, S. L., & Haley, J. (2019). Building socio-environmental infrastructures for learning in the wild. In J. Hellermann, S. Eskildsen, S. Pekarek-Doehler, & A. Piirainen-Marsh (Eds.), Conversation analytic research on learning-in-action: The complex ecology of second language interaction ‘in the wild’. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
  • Hellermann, J. & Lee, Y. (2014). Members and their competencies: Contributions of ethnomethodological conversation analysis to a multilingual turn in second language acquisition. System.
  • Hellermann, J. (2008). Social actions for classroom language learning. Clevedon, U.K.: Multilingual Matters.
  • Hellermann, J. (2008). The co-construction of learning: Response sequences in a science class asthma project. In K. Cole & J. Zuengler (Eds.), The research process in classroom discourse analysis: Current perspectives (pp. 49-72). London: Routledge.
  • Hellermann, J. (2006). Classroom interactive practices for literacy: A microethnographic study of two beginning adult learners of English. Applied Linguistics, 27(3), 377-404.
  • Hellermann, J. (2003). The interactive work of prosody in the IRF exchange: Teacher repetition in feedback moves. Language in Society, 32(1), 79-104.
Education
  • PhD
    University of Wisconsin