Kym pursued her undergraduate studies as a Music History and Performance major at New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts and as an English Literature major at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh before coming to Concordia University to complete her Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics. She has spent many years as a second language educator in K-12 classrooms and at the university level in both the United States and Canada and has worked most recently in an administrative capacity for second language programs at both SUNY Plattsburgh and McGill University. As a PhD candidate under the supervision of Pavel Trofimovich, Kym’s dissertation research investigates social attitudes toward nonnative speakers and explores interventions that have the potential to mitigate negative biases. She is a proud mother of two who loves music, theatre, and who is most at home on the dance floor.
Projects
  • Exploring the relationship between social networks and ethnic, religious, and linguistic biases toward immigrants in Canada
  • Establishing common ground as mitigation for negative social attitudes
  • Investigating listener judgments of second language speech in Quebec
  • Second language comprehensibility as a dynamic construct
  • A variationist perspective on the pronunciation of “the” + vowel in English
  • Community volunteerism and its effect on willingness to communicate in a second language
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
  1. Taylor Reid, K., Trofimovich, P., O’Brien, M., & Tsunemoto, A. (2022). Using task practice to reduce social influences on listener evaluations of second language accent and comprehensibility. International Journal of Listening, 36(3), 283–298. https://doi.org/10.1080/10904018.2021.1904933
  2. Taylor Reid, K., O’Brien, M. G., Trofimovich, P., & Tsukemoto, A. (2020). Exploring the stability of second language speech ratings through task practice in bilinguals’ two languages, Journal of Multilingual and Bilingual Speech, 2, 315–329. https://doi.org/10.1558/jmbs.17714
  3. Trofimovich, P., Nagle, C., O’Brien, M. G., Kennedy, S., Taylor Reid, K., & Strachan, L. (2020). Second language comprehensibility as a dynamic construct. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 6, 430–457. https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.20003.tro
  4. Taylor Reid, K., O’Brien, M. G., & Trofimovich, P. (2020). Testing the malleability of teachers’ judgments of second language speech. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 6, 236–264. https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.19015.tay
  5. Taylor Reid, K., Trofimovich, P., & O'Brien, M. (2019). Social attitudes and speech ratings: Effects of positive and negative bias on multiage listeners’ judgements of second language speech. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 41, 419–442. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263118000244
  6. Taylor Reid, K., & Trofimovich, P. (2018). Exploring the influence of community volunteerism on adult L2 learners’ willingness to communicate. System, 74, 73–86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2018.02.002

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
  1. Taylor Reid, K., Trofimovich, P., & O’Brien, M. G. (2022). The malleability of listener judgments of second language speech. In V. Sardegna & A. Jarosz (Eds.), Theoretical and practical developments in English speech assessment, research, and training (pp. 11–26). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98218-8_2
  2. Trofimovich, P., Nagle, C. L., O’Brien, M. G., Kennedy, S., Taylor Reid, K., & Strachan, L. (2022). Second language comprehensibility as a dynamic construct. In J. M. Levis, T. M. Derwing, & M. J. Munro (Eds.), The evolution of pronunciation teaching and research: 25 years of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness (pp. 153–179). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.121.08tro
PRESENTATIONS
  1. Taylor Reid, K., Trofimovich, P., & O’Brien, M. (2022, June). Status and solidarity judgments of immigrant L2 speakers: A pan-Canadian perspective. Paper presented at the Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching (PSLLT) Conference, St. Catharines, Ontario.
  2. Taylor Reid, K., Trofimovich, P., & O’Brien, M. G. (2022, March). Effects of speaker ethnic, linguistic, and religious background on judgments of L2 speech in Canada. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  3. Taylor Reid, K., Trofimovich, P., & O’Brien, M. G. (June, 2021). Effects of speaker ethnic, linguistic, and religious background on native-born Montrealers’ judgments of L2 speech. Paper presented at the Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching (PSLLT) Conference, Brock University. (virtual)
  4. Taylor Reid, K. (2021, January). Strategies for second language writers [Workshop]. McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  5. O’Brien, M., Taylor Reid, K., Bajt, A., & Trofimovich, P. (2019, November). Can teachers really assess pronunciation? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Washington, DC, United States.
  6. Taylor Reid, K., Trofimovich, P., O’Brien, M., & Tsunemoto, A. (2019, June). Walking in their shoes: Mitigating social bias in L2 speech rating through perspective taking [Paper]. Annual Meeting of the International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  7. Taylor Reid, K., O'Brien, M., & Trofimovich, P. (2019, March). "Wow! He did so much better than me!" Perspective taking to mitigate social bias in L2 speech rating [Paper]. Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
  8. Strachan, L., Trofimovich, P., Kennedy, S., O’Brien, M.G., & Taylor Reid, K. (2019, March). Dynamic comprehensibility: Investigating changes in self- and listener ratings of comprehensibility during L2-L2 interaction [Paper]. Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
  9. Taylor Reid, K., Strachan, L., Trofimovich, P., Kennedy, S., & O'Brien, M. (2018, October). Second language comprehensibility as a dynamic construct: Evidence from L2‐L2 interaction [Paper]. Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  10. O'Brien, M., Bajt, A., Trofimovich, P., & Taylor Reid, K. (2018, September). Testing the malleability of teachers' judgments [Paper]. Tenth Annual Conference of Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching (PSLLT), Ames, Iowa, United States.
  11. Strachan, L., Taylor Reid, K., O’Brien, M., Kennedy, S., & Trofimovich, P. (2018, May). Dynamic rating of speech in L2-L2 interaction [Paper]. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (CAAL), Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
  12. Taylor Reid, K., & Montanaro, T. (2018, April). Teaching English abroad [Workshop]. State University of New York, Plattsburgh, New York, United States.
  13. Taylor Reid, K., O’Brien, M., Trofimovich, P. (2018, March). Social attitudes: The effect of positive and negative bias on multigenerational listeners’ judgments of second language speech [Roundtable]. Annual Meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Chicago, Illinois, United States.
  14. Taylor Reid, K., Trofomovich, P., & O'Brien, M. (2017, May). Can comprehensibility be affected by social attitudes? [Paper]. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (CAAL), Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  15. Taylor Reid, K., & Trofimovich, P. (2017, May). The kindergarten effect: Enhancing adult L2 learners’ willingness to communicate [Paper]. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (CAAL), Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  16. Taylor Reid, K., & Cardoso, W. (2016, November). A variationist perspective on the pronunciation of "the" in English: A TV corpus analysis [Paper]. Annual Meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  17. Taylor Reid, K. (2016, October). I have a student from where? A classroom teacher’s guide to instructing ESL students in an immersion setting [Workshop]. Plattsburgh City School District, Plattsburgh, New York, United States.
GRANTS, awards and scholarships
External Funding
  • UNY Plattsburgh Discretionary Salary Award
  • Phi Kappa Phi Marcus L. Urann Fellowship ​
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Awards and Scholarships
  • Concordia University Accelerator Award
  • Concordia University Faculty Research Grant 
  • Concordia University Faculty of Arts and Science Fellowship
  • Concordia University International Tuition Award of Excellence
  • Concordia University Conference and Exposition Award
  • Judy and Morris Fish Graduate Scholarship in Education​
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