Introduction

[Douglas Demo]

Greetings all,
  Just wanted to take a moment to introduce myself and my research
interests in hopes of finding others in the same boat... My name is Doug
Demo and I am a PhD student in Applied Linguistics at Georgetown
University.  In broad terms I am interested in anything relating to
discourse analysis and language teaching/learning (ESL and/or Spanish).
At the moment I am investigating common L2 tasks such as information gap
tasks, role play, decision-making etc.  from a conversational analysis
perspective....looking at topics such as turn-taking, backchannel
behavior, repair, etc.  Although SLA research has focused on these tasks
for conversational modifications (see the work of Long, Pica, Doughty
etc), I believe there is much more to found in those interactions.  If
anyone out there is interested in this kind of stuff or in applications to
language teaching/learning...please give a holler..i'd love to collaborate
on some work  :)
  Oh, I also am interested in anything on cross-cultural communication and
bilingual education (could it be any broader?? sorry.)

Douglas Demo
PhD Fellow in Applied Linguistics
Georgetown University
email: demod at gusun.georgetown.edu