J Shin
Biographic Data
| ID | 31759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Shin |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Shin |
| SIGNATURE | SHIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2775-0114 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Navigating opportunities and challenges in interculturality
From homogeneity to plurality
Becoming a Critical ESL Teacher
This case study examines how an experienced secondary ESL teacher’s personal and professional history is linked to his curricular choices in the classroom and how his enactment of critical educator identity interacts with ideologies within society. The analysis of the focal teacher’s experiences that remain prominent in autobiographical memory shows that his lived experiences of (re)learning Spanish and English, studying and teaching abroad and i…
Becoming a researching subject in the era of neoliberalism
This study interrogates the influences of neoliberalism on applied linguistics research by engaging in critical reflections on my researcher subjectivity. Drawing on a longitudinal study of marginalized teenagers in South Korea, I examine how neoliberal forces have acted upon me as a subject and how I have maneuvered the neoliberal academic field. As I narrate and name my struggles that have originated from the ascendancy of neoliberalism, I show…
Democratic civic engagement of adolescents in three divided societies
This study examines how socio-political divisions–particularly race/ethnicity and religion–were related to democratic civic engagement (DCE) in three divided societies: Northern Ireland (NI), South Africa (SA), and the United States (US). Adolescents exposed to well-evaluated, parallel civics curricula reported significantly greater civic engagement in SA than in the US; those in the US reported significantly greater engagement than those in NI. …
Deconstructing deficit perspectives on minority youth
Drawing on ecological perspectives, this study examined the foundational assumption behind the negative stereotypes that surround children of mixed parentage in South Korea; namely, that their alleged deficiency in the Korean language will cause numerous issues for Korean society. The data used for this study came from a panel study of Korean adolescents that included such variables as their Korean and English proficiency as well as other explana…
Ways of Living in the Context of Globalization
This study examines how two Korean adolescents, born in transnational marriage families, construct their identities in the context of globalization. The data used comes from a yearlong ethnographic research project that includes fieldnotes, interview transcripts, and additional artifacts. The findings reveal that Tayo and Sungho navigate through linguistically, culturally, and discursively hybridized social spaces. Encountering the ideology of a …
The vortex of multiculturalism in South Korea
This study investigates how multicultural children have been portrayed by the Korean media, where the term is typically used to mean a child of an underprivileged Korean man and a female marriage migrant from a less industrialized neighboring country. Adopting the theoretical lens of critical discourse analysis, I examine news articles published from 2009 to 2013 in the Hankyoreh, the Hankook Ilbo, and the Chosun Ilbo: three daily newspapers repr…
Minority youth’s mastery of academic vocabulary and its implications for their educational achievements
As a way to examine the validity of deficit perspectives on multicultural children in South Korea—namely, children of mixed parentage who are said to suffer from speech problems and school failure, this study examined their everyday and academic Korean proficiency and its association with their educational achievements. The primary data sources for this study included fieldnotes produced over 11 months of fieldwork at three focal students’ homes …
The construction of the tourist gaze in English textbooks in South Korea
This study investigates how larger ideological tensions related to internationalisation and nationalisation are manifested in local education systems, especially in English textbooks. We begin this exploration with a review of the School Curriculum of the Republic of Korea. Using three textbooks as cases; we examine how they reflect and manage the tensions presented in the Curriculum. We argue that these tensions are managed through the construct…
Language choices and symbolic power in intercultural communication
This paper is a case study of a Filipino woman who migrated to Korea to marry a Korean farmer and who ends up using her knowledge of English to navigate power differences in her exchanges with Korean interlocutors. I extend the tradition of research on intercultural communication by drawing on Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic power. Employing the ethnography of an embedded case study, this paper adopts inductive thematic analysis and discourse anal…
The Case of Chichewa and English in Malawi
We investigated the relationship between Chichewa (L1) and English (L2) literacies in Malawi. Through our use of hierarchical linear modeling, we found that cross-language literacy transfer between Chichewa and English did occur, but that the pattern and the strength of the relationships varied depending on the literacy domain (i.e., reading or writing) and grade level. Our work has implications for students, teachers, and policy makers in countr…
Supporting Change in Literacy Instruction in Malawi
In this study, we examined the effectiveness of an innovative approach to literacy instruction in Malawi on teachers' perceptions, attitudes, and instructional practices. Two groups participated in the study: Treatment teachers received complementary teaching and learning materials, workshops, and directive coaching, and control teachers received no intervention. After this five-month intervention, treatment teachers were significantly more comfo…
Intercultural communication
The vortex of multiculturalism in South Korea
This study investigates how multicultural children have been portrayed by the Korean media, where the term is typically used to mean a child of an underprivileged Korean man and a female marriage migrant from a less industrialized neighboring country. Adopting the theoretical lens of critical discourse analysis, I examine news articles published from 2009 to 2013 in the Hankyoreh, the Hankook Ilbo, and the Chosun Ilbo: three daily newspapers repr…
The construction of the tourist gaze in English textbooks in South Korea
This study investigates how larger ideological tensions related to internationalisation and nationalisation are manifested in local education systems, especially in English textbooks. We begin this exploration with a review of the School Curriculum of the Republic of Korea. Using three textbooks as cases; we examine how they reflect and manage the tensions presented in the Curriculum. We argue that these tensions are managed through the construct…
The Case of Chichewa and English in Malawi
We investigated the relationship between Chichewa (L1) and English (L2) literacies in Malawi. Through our use of hierarchical linear modeling, we found that cross-language literacy transfer between Chichewa and English did occur, but that the pattern and the strength of the relationships varied depending on the literacy domain (i.e., reading or writing) and grade level. Our work has implications for students, teachers, and policy makers in countr…
Becoming a researching subject in the era of neoliberalism
This study interrogates the influences of neoliberalism on applied linguistics research by engaging in critical reflections on my researcher subjectivity. Drawing on a longitudinal study of marginalized teenagers in South Korea, I examine how neoliberal forces have acted upon me as a subject and how I have maneuvered the neoliberal academic field. As I narrate and name my struggles that have originated from the ascendancy of neoliberalism, I show…
Supporting Change in Literacy Instruction in Malawi
In this study, we examined the effectiveness of an innovative approach to literacy instruction in Malawi on teachers' perceptions, attitudes, and instructional practices. Two groups participated in the study: Treatment teachers received complementary teaching and learning materials, workshops, and directive coaching, and control teachers received no intervention. After this five-month intervention, treatment teachers were significantly more comfo…
Becoming a Critical ESL Teacher
This case study examines how an experienced secondary ESL teacher’s personal and professional history is linked to his curricular choices in the classroom and how his enactment of critical educator identity interacts with ideologies within society. The analysis of the focal teacher’s experiences that remain prominent in autobiographical memory shows that his lived experiences of (re)learning Spanish and English, studying and teaching abroad and i…
Intercultural communication
Supporting Change in Literacy Instruction in Malawi
In this study, we examined the effectiveness of an innovative approach to literacy instruction in Malawi on teachers' perceptions, attitudes, and instructional practices. Two groups participated in the study: Treatment teachers received complementary teaching and learning materials, workshops, and directive coaching, and control teachers received no intervention. After this five-month intervention, treatment teachers were significantly more comfo…
The Case of Chichewa and English in Malawi
We investigated the relationship between Chichewa (L1) and English (L2) literacies in Malawi. Through our use of hierarchical linear modeling, we found that cross-language literacy transfer between Chichewa and English did occur, but that the pattern and the strength of the relationships varied depending on the literacy domain (i.e., reading or writing) and grade level. Our work has implications for students, teachers, and policy makers in countr…
Language choices and symbolic power in intercultural communication
This paper is a case study of a Filipino woman who migrated to Korea to marry a Korean farmer and who ends up using her knowledge of English to navigate power differences in her exchanges with Korean interlocutors. I extend the tradition of research on intercultural communication by drawing on Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic power. Employing the ethnography of an embedded case study, this paper adopts inductive thematic analysis and discourse anal…
Minority youth’s mastery of academic vocabulary and its implications for their educational achievements
As a way to examine the validity of deficit perspectives on multicultural children in South Korea—namely, children of mixed parentage who are said to suffer from speech problems and school failure, this study examined their everyday and academic Korean proficiency and its association with their educational achievements. The primary data sources for this study included fieldnotes produced over 11 months of fieldwork at three focal students’ homes …
The construction of the tourist gaze in English textbooks in South Korea
This study investigates how larger ideological tensions related to internationalisation and nationalisation are manifested in local education systems, especially in English textbooks. We begin this exploration with a review of the School Curriculum of the Republic of Korea. Using three textbooks as cases; we examine how they reflect and manage the tensions presented in the Curriculum. We argue that these tensions are managed through the construct…
Ways of Living in the Context of Globalization
This study examines how two Korean adolescents, born in transnational marriage families, construct their identities in the context of globalization. The data used comes from a yearlong ethnographic research project that includes fieldnotes, interview transcripts, and additional artifacts. The findings reveal that Tayo and Sungho navigate through linguistically, culturally, and discursively hybridized social spaces. Encountering the ideology of a …
The vortex of multiculturalism in South Korea
This study investigates how multicultural children have been portrayed by the Korean media, where the term is typically used to mean a child of an underprivileged Korean man and a female marriage migrant from a less industrialized neighboring country. Adopting the theoretical lens of critical discourse analysis, I examine news articles published from 2009 to 2013 in the Hankyoreh, the Hankook Ilbo, and the Chosun Ilbo: three daily newspapers repr…
Deconstructing deficit perspectives on minority youth
Drawing on ecological perspectives, this study examined the foundational assumption behind the negative stereotypes that surround children of mixed parentage in South Korea; namely, that their alleged deficiency in the Korean language will cause numerous issues for Korean society. The data used for this study came from a panel study of Korean adolescents that included such variables as their Korean and English proficiency as well as other explana…
Democratic civic engagement of adolescents in three divided societies
This study examines how socio-political divisions–particularly race/ethnicity and religion–were related to democratic civic engagement (DCE) in three divided societies: Northern Ireland (NI), South Africa (SA), and the United States (US). Adolescents exposed to well-evaluated, parallel civics curricula reported significantly greater civic engagement in SA than in the US; those in the US reported significantly greater engagement than those in NI. …
Becoming a researching subject in the era of neoliberalism
This study interrogates the influences of neoliberalism on applied linguistics research by engaging in critical reflections on my researcher subjectivity. Drawing on a longitudinal study of marginalized teenagers in South Korea, I examine how neoliberal forces have acted upon me as a subject and how I have maneuvered the neoliberal academic field. As I narrate and name my struggles that have originated from the ascendancy of neoliberalism, I show…
Becoming a Critical ESL Teacher
This case study examines how an experienced secondary ESL teacher’s personal and professional history is linked to his curricular choices in the classroom and how his enactment of critical educator identity interacts with ideologies within society. The analysis of the focal teacher’s experiences that remain prominent in autobiographical memory shows that his lived experiences of (re)learning Spanish and English, studying and teaching abroad and i…
From homogeneity to plurality
Navigating opportunities and challenges in interculturality
Sociology (13 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (8 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Ideology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works)