Hyun‐sook Kang
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3843714 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Hyun‐sook Kang |
| NOMBRES | Hyun‐sook |
| APELLIDO | Kang |
| FIRMA | KANG H S |
| AFILIACIONES | Illinois State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8340-3718 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Joint-degree language programs for future business and health professionals
To contribute to the discourse on ways to revitalize world language education, this study explored, through the lens of program evaluation, the effect of academic and nonacademic relationships on language majors’ choice of their major, their other motivations, and the nature of career-related knowledge and experiences they value. To this end, the study used a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design, including a web-based survey ( N = 80) and …
Engagement with language in study abroad
This study investigates the emergence and nature of engagement with language during short-term study abroad (STSA). Ten teacher-education students from the same sending university in South Korea participated in a 4-week programme hosted by a U.S. university, with emphasis on multiculturalism and English as a medium of classroom instruction. Adopting the framework of engagement with language and a case study method, the current study focuses on th…
Critical multilingual language awareness through linguistic landscapes
This study examined how a linguistic landscape task integrated into a short-term study abroad (STSA) program in Boston helped cultivate critical multilingual language awareness (CMLA) – the ability to notice and critique how multilingual language practices reflect and reproduce ideologies and power relations (De Costa and Van Gorp 2023) – among Korean college students. Twenty-one undergraduates participated in a three-week program that included c…
Refugee Learning Center in Indonesia
Although students' well‐being is widely researched in educational settings, little is known about how educational contexts influence the sense of well‐being experienced by refugee students in transit countries. This case study examined how a refugee learning center in Indonesia helps cultivate refugee students' sense of well‐being in different forms of capital. Data derived from public‐facing multimodal sources included the center's annual report…
Older Adults’ Health, Ethnicity, and Daily Life
This study examines the relationship between ethnicity and daily functional disabilities among older adults, focusing on Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs). The analysis uses data from the 2020 National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) survey, which included a sample of individuals aged 57-85 (n=3,005). Respondents provided information on their demographic background (e.g., income, …
Mobile-Assisted Language Learning During Short-Term Study Abroad
This study examined how Korean teacher candidates’ understanding of English and their use of the L2 (second language) and other semiotic resources for meaning making could be mediated through a mobile application, Band during study abroad. Drawing on the sociocultural perspective of L2 learning, the teacher candidates’ weekly reflections, which were composed in L2 English along with other semiotic resources (e.g., emoticons, images, and videos) o…
Discourse-based grammar instruction in ESL academic writing
The present study examined the relative effects of discourse-based and sentence-level grammar instruction on the learning of English present perfect in academic writing, using a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design. Participants were 37 multilingual graduate students enrolled in different sections of an ESL-writing course at a U.S. university. Prior to two 35-minute instruction sessions, the participants completed a pretest composed of acc…
Language Teacher Agency and Identity in Internationalized Higher Education
Substantial literature has focused on language teacher agency and identity in relation to learners in classrooms. Relatively little research exists regarding the nature of language teacher identity shaped by contextual factors brought on by the internationalization of education. To address the gap in the literature, this study explored how student teachers in a TESOL program negotiate their language teacher agency and identity in the ecosystems o…
Researching language-focused study abroad through an equity lens
Study abroad (SA) has long been regarded as a key component of internationalization efforts in higher education and much scholarship has investigated the practices and outcomes of SA from varied perspectives. More recently, scholars have paid growing attention to ways to increase the participation of historically marginalized students in SA, to design SA programs to meet those students’ needs, and to document their experiences abroad. Despite rec…
Older Adults’ Friends and Ethnicity
This study examines the relationships among friends and ethnicity of older adults. Friends includes friend numbers and their quality of relationships with friends of older adults in the current study. Data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) survey (Waite et al., 2020) were used. The NSHAP study sampled persons 57-85 years of age (n=3005). The respondents completed a telephone survey in which they reported their backg…
Short‐Term Study Abroad in Tesol
In line with the fiscal, structural, and academic shifts in higher education, a growing number of universities in English‐speaking countries develop and deliver short‐term study‐abroad (STSA) programs that are shorter than a regular academic term, often under contract with sending universities and governments from non‐English‐speaking countries. Distinct from the well‐established scholarship in SA largely focused on American and European universi…
Translingual competence and study abroad
While study abroad (SA) has long been considered an opportunity for language learning, relatively little research has investigated how short-term SA programs hosted by Anglophone countries support varied aspects of sojourners’ language learning. To address this gap, the current study examined how 10 college students from a Korean university developed translingual competence (Canagarajah 2014 Canagarajah, S. 2014. “Theorizing a Competence for Tran…
Health Benefits of Staying Active After Retirement
The objective of this study was to examine the breadth and depth of relationships with retirement and health regarding older adults’ physical activities. In addition, the possible implication of the relationships is to examine better understanding of how to stay active after retirement. Data from the American Association of Retirement Persons (AARP, Montenegro, 2015) telephone survey were used, which sampled persons, age range was 60-89 years old…
Broadening learners’ perspectives on World Englishes
This study explored Korean university students’ beliefs and perspectives on different English varieties, and their transformation in learner perceptions with respect to English learning, diversity in the English language, and learning of different English varieties over the course of a semester. On two occasions, Korean university students (N = 127) who were enrolled in different sections of a required English-language course completed a question…
Scaffolds, signs, and bridges
This study examines preservice teachers’ (PSTs) experiences with language ideologies in clinical placements across an academic year. Using methods derived from phenomenology, it explores how PSTs constructed and contested language ideologies about translanguaging in dual-language and transitional bilingual education elementary classrooms. Findings show that PST discourse evidenced ideologies of translanguaging as a bridge for connecting languages…
Tiger Moms or Cat Dads
Objective This study examines the differing roles of parents in producing bilingualism among second‐generation Asian and Latino Americans, the fastest growing immigrant groups in the United States. Methods We employ the probit model to estimate the likelihood of language maintenance for both ethnic groups using the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) USA of 2005–2014. Results The estimation results show that mothers play a more signifi…
South Korean university students’ perceptions of different English varieties and their contribution to the learning of English as a foreign language
This study explored South Korean university students’ perceptions of different English varieties and their speakers, student attitudes towards the learning of English and its varieties, and the role of these attitudinal variables in the learning of English as a foreign language. One-hundred-one students who were enrolled in four sections of a semester-long English course completed a country-rating task and a perception questionnaire of recorded E…
Mainstream Teacher Candidates' Perspectives on ESL Writing
This study explored the extent to which the ethnic identity of a writer and the background (gender and area of teaching) of a rater can influence mainstream teacher candidates' evaluation of English as a second language (ESL) writing, using a matched-guise method. A one-page essay was elicited from an ESL learner enrolled in an intensive English program and was manipulated to incorporate error patterns often observed among Chinese- and Spanish-sp…
Subject-Object Asymmetry in the Second Language Acquisition of English Relatives and Embedded Wh-Questions
Korean Families in America
This study examined the family language policies (FLP) of Korean American parents and how the language practice, management, and ideology components of their FLP and demographic variables predict maintenance of the home language. Results of a large-scale (N = 480) survey show that different sets of FLP and demographic variables contributed to a model that predicted retention of oral versus literacy skills. Child gender, age of English exposure, a…
Korean American College Students’ Language Practices and Identity Positioning
This article explores the intersection between language practices and ethnic identity for 8 second-generation Korean American learners who were participating in a Korean-as-a-foreign-language (KFL) class at a U.S. university. This study aims to examine the fluid nature of ethnic identity by examining how Korean heritage learners negotiate, construct, and position themselves in the landscape of American-ness and Korean-ness, through language pract…
Perceived and actual competence and ethnic identity in heritage language learning
A growing body of literature has explored issues surrounding the maintenance and development of a minority heritage language among immigrants and their children in relation to their ethnic identities in multi-ethnic societies. However, most of the studies either have alluded to heritage learners' language competence by way of their attitudes and ideologies toward their heritage and language maintenance or have addressed their competence by way of…
English-only instruction at Korean universities
As the suicides by a few students at one of South Korea's (hereafter Korea) most prestigious universities drew a great deal of attention from the public, partial blame went to the new institutional policy imposed by the university's top administrator: exclusive use of English as the medium of instruction across the entire curriculum (McDonald, 2011). The fanatical pursuit of English education and the overall status of the English language in Kore…
Attribution and Self-Efficacy and Their Interrelationship in the Korean EFL Context
This study examined the interrelationships between learners' attributions and self-efficacy and their achievements in learning English as a foreign language. Participants were 192 ninth-grade English learners in Korea who were asked to provide attribution and self-efficacy ratings upon receiving test grades. Results indicated that learners with different levels of self-efficacy ratings endorsed attributions differently for successful and unsucces…
On the Optimality-Theoretic Analysis of Korean Nasal-Liquid Alternations
Korean Families in America
This study examined the family language policies (FLP) of Korean American parents and how the language practice, management, and ideology components of their FLP and demographic variables predict maintenance of the home language. Results of a large-scale (N = 480) survey show that different sets of FLP and demographic variables contributed to a model that predicted retention of oral versus literacy skills. Child gender, age of English exposure, a…
Attribution and Self-Efficacy and Their Interrelationship in the Korean EFL Context
This study examined the interrelationships between learners' attributions and self-efficacy and their achievements in learning English as a foreign language. Participants were 192 ninth-grade English learners in Korea who were asked to provide attribution and self-efficacy ratings upon receiving test grades. Results indicated that learners with different levels of self-efficacy ratings endorsed attributions differently for successful and unsucces…
Scaffolds, signs, and bridges
This study examines preservice teachers’ (PSTs) experiences with language ideologies in clinical placements across an academic year. Using methods derived from phenomenology, it explores how PSTs constructed and contested language ideologies about translanguaging in dual-language and transitional bilingual education elementary classrooms. Findings show that PST discourse evidenced ideologies of translanguaging as a bridge for connecting languages…
South Korean university students’ perceptions of different English varieties and their contribution to the learning of English as a foreign language
This study explored South Korean university students’ perceptions of different English varieties and their speakers, student attitudes towards the learning of English and its varieties, and the role of these attitudinal variables in the learning of English as a foreign language. One-hundred-one students who were enrolled in four sections of a semester-long English course completed a country-rating task and a perception questionnaire of recorded E…
Korean American College Students’ Language Practices and Identity Positioning
This article explores the intersection between language practices and ethnic identity for 8 second-generation Korean American learners who were participating in a Korean-as-a-foreign-language (KFL) class at a U.S. university. This study aims to examine the fluid nature of ethnic identity by examining how Korean heritage learners negotiate, construct, and position themselves in the landscape of American-ness and Korean-ness, through language pract…
Short‐Term Study Abroad in Tesol
In line with the fiscal, structural, and academic shifts in higher education, a growing number of universities in English‐speaking countries develop and deliver short‐term study‐abroad (STSA) programs that are shorter than a regular academic term, often under contract with sending universities and governments from non‐English‐speaking countries. Distinct from the well‐established scholarship in SA largely focused on American and European universi…
Language Teacher Agency and Identity in Internationalized Higher Education
Substantial literature has focused on language teacher agency and identity in relation to learners in classrooms. Relatively little research exists regarding the nature of language teacher identity shaped by contextual factors brought on by the internationalization of education. To address the gap in the literature, this study explored how student teachers in a TESOL program negotiate their language teacher agency and identity in the ecosystems o…
Tiger Moms or Cat Dads
Objective This study examines the differing roles of parents in producing bilingualism among second‐generation Asian and Latino Americans, the fastest growing immigrant groups in the United States. Methods We employ the probit model to estimate the likelihood of language maintenance for both ethnic groups using the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) USA of 2005–2014. Results The estimation results show that mothers play a more signifi…
Mainstream Teacher Candidates' Perspectives on ESL Writing
This study explored the extent to which the ethnic identity of a writer and the background (gender and area of teaching) of a rater can influence mainstream teacher candidates' evaluation of English as a second language (ESL) writing, using a matched-guise method. A one-page essay was elicited from an ESL learner enrolled in an intensive English program and was manipulated to incorporate error patterns often observed among Chinese- and Spanish-sp…
On the Optimality-Theoretic Analysis of Korean Nasal-Liquid Alternations
Attribution and Self-Efficacy and Their Interrelationship in the Korean EFL Context
This study examined the interrelationships between learners' attributions and self-efficacy and their achievements in learning English as a foreign language. Participants were 192 ninth-grade English learners in Korea who were asked to provide attribution and self-efficacy ratings upon receiving test grades. Results indicated that learners with different levels of self-efficacy ratings endorsed attributions differently for successful and unsucces…
Perceived and actual competence and ethnic identity in heritage language learning
A growing body of literature has explored issues surrounding the maintenance and development of a minority heritage language among immigrants and their children in relation to their ethnic identities in multi-ethnic societies. However, most of the studies either have alluded to heritage learners' language competence by way of their attitudes and ideologies toward their heritage and language maintenance or have addressed their competence by way of…
English-only instruction at Korean universities
As the suicides by a few students at one of South Korea's (hereafter Korea) most prestigious universities drew a great deal of attention from the public, partial blame went to the new institutional policy imposed by the university's top administrator: exclusive use of English as the medium of instruction across the entire curriculum (McDonald, 2011). The fanatical pursuit of English education and the overall status of the English language in Kore…
Korean American College Students’ Language Practices and Identity Positioning
This article explores the intersection between language practices and ethnic identity for 8 second-generation Korean American learners who were participating in a Korean-as-a-foreign-language (KFL) class at a U.S. university. This study aims to examine the fluid nature of ethnic identity by examining how Korean heritage learners negotiate, construct, and position themselves in the landscape of American-ness and Korean-ness, through language pract…
Korean Families in America
This study examined the family language policies (FLP) of Korean American parents and how the language practice, management, and ideology components of their FLP and demographic variables predict maintenance of the home language. Results of a large-scale (N = 480) survey show that different sets of FLP and demographic variables contributed to a model that predicted retention of oral versus literacy skills. Child gender, age of English exposure, a…
Subject-Object Asymmetry in the Second Language Acquisition of English Relatives and Embedded Wh-Questions
South Korean university students’ perceptions of different English varieties and their contribution to the learning of English as a foreign language
This study explored South Korean university students’ perceptions of different English varieties and their speakers, student attitudes towards the learning of English and its varieties, and the role of these attitudinal variables in the learning of English as a foreign language. One-hundred-one students who were enrolled in four sections of a semester-long English course completed a country-rating task and a perception questionnaire of recorded E…
Mainstream Teacher Candidates' Perspectives on ESL Writing
This study explored the extent to which the ethnic identity of a writer and the background (gender and area of teaching) of a rater can influence mainstream teacher candidates' evaluation of English as a second language (ESL) writing, using a matched-guise method. A one-page essay was elicited from an ESL learner enrolled in an intensive English program and was manipulated to incorporate error patterns often observed among Chinese- and Spanish-sp…
Broadening learners’ perspectives on World Englishes
This study explored Korean university students’ beliefs and perspectives on different English varieties, and their transformation in learner perceptions with respect to English learning, diversity in the English language, and learning of different English varieties over the course of a semester. On two occasions, Korean university students (N = 127) who were enrolled in different sections of a required English-language course completed a question…
Scaffolds, signs, and bridges
This study examines preservice teachers’ (PSTs) experiences with language ideologies in clinical placements across an academic year. Using methods derived from phenomenology, it explores how PSTs constructed and contested language ideologies about translanguaging in dual-language and transitional bilingual education elementary classrooms. Findings show that PST discourse evidenced ideologies of translanguaging as a bridge for connecting languages…
Tiger Moms or Cat Dads
Objective This study examines the differing roles of parents in producing bilingualism among second‐generation Asian and Latino Americans, the fastest growing immigrant groups in the United States. Methods We employ the probit model to estimate the likelihood of language maintenance for both ethnic groups using the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) USA of 2005–2014. Results The estimation results show that mothers play a more signifi…
Translingual competence and study abroad
While study abroad (SA) has long been considered an opportunity for language learning, relatively little research has investigated how short-term SA programs hosted by Anglophone countries support varied aspects of sojourners’ language learning. To address this gap, the current study examined how 10 college students from a Korean university developed translingual competence (Canagarajah 2014 Canagarajah, S. 2014. “Theorizing a Competence for Tran…
Health Benefits of Staying Active After Retirement
The objective of this study was to examine the breadth and depth of relationships with retirement and health regarding older adults’ physical activities. In addition, the possible implication of the relationships is to examine better understanding of how to stay active after retirement. Data from the American Association of Retirement Persons (AARP, Montenegro, 2015) telephone survey were used, which sampled persons, age range was 60-89 years old…
Short‐Term Study Abroad in Tesol
In line with the fiscal, structural, and academic shifts in higher education, a growing number of universities in English‐speaking countries develop and deliver short‐term study‐abroad (STSA) programs that are shorter than a regular academic term, often under contract with sending universities and governments from non‐English‐speaking countries. Distinct from the well‐established scholarship in SA largely focused on American and European universi…
Older Adults’ Friends and Ethnicity
This study examines the relationships among friends and ethnicity of older adults. Friends includes friend numbers and their quality of relationships with friends of older adults in the current study. Data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) survey (Waite et al., 2020) were used. The NSHAP study sampled persons 57-85 years of age (n=3005). The respondents completed a telephone survey in which they reported their backg…
Mobile-Assisted Language Learning During Short-Term Study Abroad
This study examined how Korean teacher candidates’ understanding of English and their use of the L2 (second language) and other semiotic resources for meaning making could be mediated through a mobile application, Band during study abroad. Drawing on the sociocultural perspective of L2 learning, the teacher candidates’ weekly reflections, which were composed in L2 English along with other semiotic resources (e.g., emoticons, images, and videos) o…
Discourse-based grammar instruction in ESL academic writing
The present study examined the relative effects of discourse-based and sentence-level grammar instruction on the learning of English present perfect in academic writing, using a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design. Participants were 37 multilingual graduate students enrolled in different sections of an ESL-writing course at a U.S. university. Prior to two 35-minute instruction sessions, the participants completed a pretest composed of acc…
Language Teacher Agency and Identity in Internationalized Higher Education
Substantial literature has focused on language teacher agency and identity in relation to learners in classrooms. Relatively little research exists regarding the nature of language teacher identity shaped by contextual factors brought on by the internationalization of education. To address the gap in the literature, this study explored how student teachers in a TESOL program negotiate their language teacher agency and identity in the ecosystems o…
Researching language-focused study abroad through an equity lens
Study abroad (SA) has long been regarded as a key component of internationalization efforts in higher education and much scholarship has investigated the practices and outcomes of SA from varied perspectives. More recently, scholars have paid growing attention to ways to increase the participation of historically marginalized students in SA, to design SA programs to meet those students’ needs, and to document their experiences abroad. Despite rec…
Refugee Learning Center in Indonesia
Although students' well‐being is widely researched in educational settings, little is known about how educational contexts influence the sense of well‐being experienced by refugee students in transit countries. This case study examined how a refugee learning center in Indonesia helps cultivate refugee students' sense of well‐being in different forms of capital. Data derived from public‐facing multimodal sources included the center's annual report…
Older Adults’ Health, Ethnicity, and Daily Life
This study examines the relationship between ethnicity and daily functional disabilities among older adults, focusing on Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs). The analysis uses data from the 2020 National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) survey, which included a sample of individuals aged 57-85 (n=3,005). Respondents provided information on their demographic background (e.g., income, …
Joint-degree language programs for future business and health professionals
To contribute to the discourse on ways to revitalize world language education, this study explored, through the lens of program evaluation, the effect of academic and nonacademic relationships on language majors’ choice of their major, their other motivations, and the nature of career-related knowledge and experiences they value. To this end, the study used a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design, including a web-based survey ( N = 80) and …
Engagement with language in study abroad
This study investigates the emergence and nature of engagement with language during short-term study abroad (STSA). Ten teacher-education students from the same sending university in South Korea participated in a 4-week programme hosted by a U.S. university, with emphasis on multiculturalism and English as a medium of classroom instruction. Adopting the framework of engagement with language and a case study method, the current study focuses on th…
Critical multilingual language awareness through linguistic landscapes
This study examined how a linguistic landscape task integrated into a short-term study abroad (STSA) program in Boston helped cultivate critical multilingual language awareness (CMLA) – the ability to notice and critique how multilingual language practices reflect and reproduce ideologies and power relations (De Costa and Van Gorp 2023) – among Korean college students. Twenty-one undergraduates participated in a three-week program that included c…
Psychology (19 obras) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (17 obras) · Sociology (15 obras) · Pedagogy (13 obras) · Linguistics (12 obras) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (12 obras) · Multilingual Education and Policy (11 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Mathematics education (7 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras)