JOHNSTON, SEAMUS
Seamus Johnston holds a BA in History and Modern Irish from Trinity College Dublin (2008-2013) and an MA in Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language from the University of Birmingham (2016-2019). He has been teaching English in Japan since 2014. First, at Seiho Senior High School, and from 2019 at Reitaku University (Chiba, Japan), where he is a Senior Lecturer.
In March 2023 he started preparing his PhD at the University of Santiago de Compostela, within the research unit Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization and under the supervision of Zeltia Blanco-Suárez and Teresa Fanego. His dissertation topic is concerned with a number of historical developments in Irish English, on the basis of the digital edition of the 1641 Depositions at Trinity College Dublin.
Contact information:
Center for English Communication (CEC)
Reitaku University, Japan
E-mail: sjohnsto@reitaku-u.ac.jp
MA Dissertation (2019): “An investigation into the acquisition of high-frequency words in a Japanese high school context”, University of Birmingham.
Publications:
2024. "The English language of seventeenth-century Ireland: A corpus analysis of the 1641 Depositions". In Crossing Boundaries: Transatlantic Dialogues and Gendered Narratives. Selected Papers from the 46th International Conference of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), ed. by Francisco Alonso-Almeida & Carmen Luján-García. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Servicio de Publicaciones y Difusión Científica de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, pp. 36-41. ISBN: 978-84-9042-539-8. [First author, with Zeltia Blanco-Suárez & Teresa Fanego]. Available online.
2023. "The benefit of a ten-minute writing fluency exercise in an English writing course". Departmental Bulletin Paper (7 December 2023): 11-21. [First author, with Alessandro Grimaldi.]
2023. "Japanese high school student's knowledge of the most frequent words of English". Verb: Vocabulary Education and Research Bulletin 12(2): 13-27.
2022. "Selecting coursebook content: A lexical approach". Verb: Vocabulary Education and Research Bulletin 11(2): 3-9.
conference presentations:
21-24 August 2024: 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Helsinki: Teresa Fanego, Seamus Johnston & Zeltia Blanco-Suárez, "The genesis of Irish English habitual Do: An analysis of the 1641 Depositions".
18-22 June 2024: 45th ICAME Conference, University of Vigo: Teresa Fanego, Seamus Johnston & Zeltia Blanco-Suárez, "Tracking Irish English habitual Do: Do as a marker of habitual aspect in the 1641 Depositions".
8-10 November 2023: 46th International Conference of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Zeltia Blanco-Suárez, Seamus Johnston & Teresa Fanego, "The English Language of Seventeenth-Century Ireland: A Corpus Analysis of the 1641 Depositions".
