Home Departments: East Asian Studies, College of Humanities Administration
SLAT Area of Specialization: Sociocultural Dimensions of L2 Learning
Kimberly Jones (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is a Professor of East Asian Studies, and affiliated with the SLAT program, at the University of Arizona. She directed the University of Arizona Japanese language program for many years and has also served as department head of East Asian Studies and vice dean of the College of Humanities. A sociolinguist, she is particularly interested in gender and language, in how language pedagogy can be informed by the analysis of naturally occurring talk, and in children’s language acquisition, attrition, and code-switching. Nationally, she has served on the board of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, as Language and Linguistics Editor of Japanese Language and Literature, and as a consultant for the College Board and Educational Testing Service, working on curriculum and test development for the Advanced Placement Japanese Language and Culture program.
Interests: sociolinguistics; pragmatics; discourse analysis; gender and language use; second language pedagogy; child language acquisition and attrition; code-switching; discourses of childrearing; early childhood and elementary education in Japan
Degrees
- Ph.D. Linguistics & Asian Languages and Cultures: Japanese
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- Conflict in Japanese Conversation
- M.A. Far Eastern Languages and Literatures: Japanese
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- Kokonchomonjû: Integrative techniques in a thirteenth-century setsuwa collection
- M.A. Linguistics
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- Major field: General linguistics
- B.A. Geology
- Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, United States
Work Experience
- College of Humanities (2024 - Ongoing)
- College of Humanities (2017 - 2024)
- College of Humanities, Office of the Dean, University of Arizona (2015 - 2017)
- College of Humanities, Office of the Dean, University of Arizona (2010 - 2015)
- East Asian Studies, University of Arizona (2009 - Ongoing)
- Year-in-Japan Program, Konan University (2009 - 2010)
- College of Humanities, Office of the Dean, University of Arizona (2008 - 2009)
- Department of English Language and Culture & Center for Foreign Language Education, Shimane University (2003 - 2004)
- East Asian Studies, University of Arizona (1996 - 2009)
- East Asian Studies, University of Arizona (1990 - 1996)