Sally Jacoby: A Reflection

Abstract

After a courageous battle with lung cancer, Dr. Sally Jacoby, 58, distinguished teacher and researcher in applied linguistics, energetic conversationalist, theater and music enthusiast, and former editor of Issues in Applied Linguistics passed Sally was an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the in applied linguistics from UCLA, her M.A. in applied English linguistics from the University of Birmingham, and her Bachelor degrees from the Northwestern University and Tel Aviv University. Her areas of specialization included discourse and conversation analysis, talk and interaction in everyday and institutional set- tings and indigenous assessment of communication performance. Her publications are primarily in discourse analysis but one paper in language assessment is an on the concept of indigenous assessment criteria. This work was also discussed in Dan Douglas’ book indigenous assessment criteria as those used by subject specialists in assessing the 68). Sally was also a frequent presenter at the American Association of Applied many topics that were brought to the podium. I knew Sally from our days together as doctoral students in the applied lin- Beach Boys had made it out to be. And that Westwood was not Bohemian enough. We spent thousands of hours chatting about other mutual interests in the areas of magazines, the New York Review of Books and , and the writing of abstracts and papers for publications. It was these diverse interests and also the lack of a publication venue for student ideas that propelled us to found the student-run journal Issues in Applied Linguistics terms of dissemination of new student ideas – especially because the UCLA Working Papers in Applied Linguistics had ceased to operate. But we needed money to fund any kind of publication and the Department of Applied Linguistics did not have any funds for this. So, I submitted a proposal to the Graduate Students Association to different campus groups based on need and merit – and after a few months of