Jayoung Choi
Biographic Data
| ID | 5424958 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jayoung Choi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jayoung |
| FAMILY NAME | Choi |
| SIGNATURE | CHOI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kennesaw State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9098-7360 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Trilingual families’ border thinking in the United States
Multilingual parents who are also transnationals navigate diverse linguistic borders while promoting rich language practices for their children. Although these parents’ practices are integral to equitably educating and nurturing multilingual students in schools, educators lack insights into parents’ thoughts and actions. Using border thinking, we examine how three trilingual families in the United States navigate linguistic injustice amid monolin…
Teaching minoritised children in South Korea
Most policies and teaching practices in early childhood education and care (ECEC) are based on the developmental paths of children from mainstream middle-class, White, European, heterosexual households. The common discourse often summed up as universalism significantly minoritizes children deviating from this “norm” and pathologizes their differences. Efforts toward bringing about changes in the ECEC field can start by examining individual ECEC t…
From trilingualism to triliteracy
Drawing on translanguaging and a translingual approach to literacy, this case study seeks to examine why and how a trilingual child engaged with writing across two heritage languages (HLs), Korean and Farsi, as well as English over 5 years. I enter the study by taking on the role of a motherscholar to address the research question “What, how, and why my son, a trilingual child, wrote across three scripts at home?” The analysis of a large number o…
Migrant mothers’ heritage language education in South Korea
Heritage language (HL) learning has been known as essential to transmission of cultural values, familial and social bonds, and children’s potential academic and professional advancement. Nevertheless, social pressures of linguistic assimilation have made HL education difficult for many migrant families across the globe. HL transmission to younger generations is particularly challenging in damunhwa [multiculture] families in South Korea since the …
Addressing unsolved educational problems about linguistically diverse children
Despite efforts to adopt inclusive education practices and foster cultural competence in classrooms across the globe, adequate training and shifts in teachers’ mindsets frequently seem to lag behind. Studies continue to find that teachers in a variety of contexts hold negative views of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) families. Individual teachers’ attitudes and perspectives may take on more primacy in schools where CLD populations are…
The interplay of teacher identities and agency
Navigating Tensions and Leveraging Identities
This case study examines emergent, evolving language ideologies of a trilingual child, from age 3–7, who was simultaneously acquiring two heritage languages, Korean and Farsi, as well as English in the United States. A qualitative analysis of the child’s conversations in a naturally occurring home context extends the literature centered on the language ideologies of adults and older children. Findings grounded in the language ideology and transla…
A child’s trilingual language practices in Korean, Farsi, and English
Increased international marriages and transnational mobility have prompted more children to grow up learning more than two languages simultaneously. However, despite well-known benefits of multilingualism, helping a growing number of trilingual children to reach their full potential has been challenging in the US, as prevalent monolingual policies and biases inhibit home language maintenance and development. The current study aims to describe ric…
Raising Children as Multilinguals in the U.S. Context
I am raising a five-year-old son and two-year-old daughter as trilinguals in a multilingual household where we speak Korean, Farsi, and English. We have consistently maintained a one-parent-one-lan
Adolescent Multilinguals’ Engagement With Religion in a Book Club
The study examines four adolescent multilinguals’ engagement with religion, as well as outcomes of that engagement, in an out‐of‐school book club. The qualitative analysis of participants’ talk in book club meetings, writing responses, and individual interviews revealed that multilinguals tap into their religious knowledge and identities in making sense of secular literature. Engaging with different religious identities in literature discussion i…
Are Self-Endorsed Advertisements for Unhealthy Food More Effective Than Friend-endorsed Advertisements
We examined how the effectiveness of interactive advertising varies according to product type and endorser type. Data were collected from 186 South Korean university students. The results supported our prediction that when people view self-endorsed advertisements for unhealthy food, the enhanced association between the self and the product leads to cognitive dissonance, which then results in self-justification, promoting a positive attitude towar…
Maintaining three languages
In Maintaining three languages: The teenage years (parents’ and teachers’ guides), Xiao-lei Wang takes readers, parents of multilingual children, along on the linguistic journey of her sons, Leandr
Teachers' Views of Multimodal Practices in K–12 Classrooms
The Use and Role of Pop Culture in Heritage Language Learning
Despite the important use of pop culture in many instructional settings, its use in the heritage language (HL) classroom remains largely unexplored. Thus, this article reports findings from classroom‐based qualitative research that examined the use and role of pop culture in advanced Korean HL learners’ literacy engagement and identity construction. Data analyses of the learners’ reading presentations and writing projects revealed that they exten…
Suicide Risk Assessment With Asian American College Students
Scholars have based their understanding of college-student suicide in the United States largely on the study of European Americans, and therefore, its relevance to making culturally informed decisions with suicidal Asian American college students is unclear. This article explores aspects of suicide assessment potentially unique to Asian American college students and discusses possible ways to handle the process of breaking confidentiality that ar…
A cross-cultural investigation of consumer e-shopping adoption
Suicide Risk Assessment With Asian American College Students
Scholars have based their understanding of college-student suicide in the United States largely on the study of European Americans, and therefore, its relevance to making culturally informed decisions with suicidal Asian American college students is unclear. This article explores aspects of suicide assessment potentially unique to Asian American college students and discusses possible ways to handle the process of breaking confidentiality that ar…
The Use and Role of Pop Culture in Heritage Language Learning
Despite the important use of pop culture in many instructional settings, its use in the heritage language (HL) classroom remains largely unexplored. Thus, this article reports findings from classroom‐based qualitative research that examined the use and role of pop culture in advanced Korean HL learners’ literacy engagement and identity construction. Data analyses of the learners’ reading presentations and writing projects revealed that they exten…
Teachers' Views of Multimodal Practices in K–12 Classrooms
A cross-cultural investigation of consumer e-shopping adoption
Navigating Tensions and Leveraging Identities
This case study examines emergent, evolving language ideologies of a trilingual child, from age 3–7, who was simultaneously acquiring two heritage languages, Korean and Farsi, as well as English in the United States. A qualitative analysis of the child’s conversations in a naturally occurring home context extends the literature centered on the language ideologies of adults and older children. Findings grounded in the language ideology and transla…
A child’s trilingual language practices in Korean, Farsi, and English
Increased international marriages and transnational mobility have prompted more children to grow up learning more than two languages simultaneously. However, despite well-known benefits of multilingualism, helping a growing number of trilingual children to reach their full potential has been challenging in the US, as prevalent monolingual policies and biases inhibit home language maintenance and development. The current study aims to describe ric…
The interplay of teacher identities and agency
A cross-cultural investigation of consumer e-shopping adoption
Suicide Risk Assessment With Asian American College Students
Scholars have based their understanding of college-student suicide in the United States largely on the study of European Americans, and therefore, its relevance to making culturally informed decisions with suicidal Asian American college students is unclear. This article explores aspects of suicide assessment potentially unique to Asian American college students and discusses possible ways to handle the process of breaking confidentiality that ar…
The Use and Role of Pop Culture in Heritage Language Learning
Despite the important use of pop culture in many instructional settings, its use in the heritage language (HL) classroom remains largely unexplored. Thus, this article reports findings from classroom‐based qualitative research that examined the use and role of pop culture in advanced Korean HL learners’ literacy engagement and identity construction. Data analyses of the learners’ reading presentations and writing projects revealed that they exten…
Teachers' Views of Multimodal Practices in K–12 Classrooms
Adolescent Multilinguals’ Engagement With Religion in a Book Club
The study examines four adolescent multilinguals’ engagement with religion, as well as outcomes of that engagement, in an out‐of‐school book club. The qualitative analysis of participants’ talk in book club meetings, writing responses, and individual interviews revealed that multilinguals tap into their religious knowledge and identities in making sense of secular literature. Engaging with different religious identities in literature discussion i…
Are Self-Endorsed Advertisements for Unhealthy Food More Effective Than Friend-endorsed Advertisements
We examined how the effectiveness of interactive advertising varies according to product type and endorser type. Data were collected from 186 South Korean university students. The results supported our prediction that when people view self-endorsed advertisements for unhealthy food, the enhanced association between the self and the product leads to cognitive dissonance, which then results in self-justification, promoting a positive attitude towar…
Maintaining three languages
In Maintaining three languages: The teenage years (parents’ and teachers’ guides), Xiao-lei Wang takes readers, parents of multilingual children, along on the linguistic journey of her sons, Leandr
Raising Children as Multilinguals in the U.S. Context
I am raising a five-year-old son and two-year-old daughter as trilinguals in a multilingual household where we speak Korean, Farsi, and English. We have consistently maintained a one-parent-one-lan
A child’s trilingual language practices in Korean, Farsi, and English
Increased international marriages and transnational mobility have prompted more children to grow up learning more than two languages simultaneously. However, despite well-known benefits of multilingualism, helping a growing number of trilingual children to reach their full potential has been challenging in the US, as prevalent monolingual policies and biases inhibit home language maintenance and development. The current study aims to describe ric…
Navigating Tensions and Leveraging Identities
This case study examines emergent, evolving language ideologies of a trilingual child, from age 3–7, who was simultaneously acquiring two heritage languages, Korean and Farsi, as well as English in the United States. A qualitative analysis of the child’s conversations in a naturally occurring home context extends the literature centered on the language ideologies of adults and older children. Findings grounded in the language ideology and transla…
Addressing unsolved educational problems about linguistically diverse children
Despite efforts to adopt inclusive education practices and foster cultural competence in classrooms across the globe, adequate training and shifts in teachers’ mindsets frequently seem to lag behind. Studies continue to find that teachers in a variety of contexts hold negative views of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) families. Individual teachers’ attitudes and perspectives may take on more primacy in schools where CLD populations are…
The interplay of teacher identities and agency
From trilingualism to triliteracy
Drawing on translanguaging and a translingual approach to literacy, this case study seeks to examine why and how a trilingual child engaged with writing across two heritage languages (HLs), Korean and Farsi, as well as English over 5 years. I enter the study by taking on the role of a motherscholar to address the research question “What, how, and why my son, a trilingual child, wrote across three scripts at home?” The analysis of a large number o…
Migrant mothers’ heritage language education in South Korea
Heritage language (HL) learning has been known as essential to transmission of cultural values, familial and social bonds, and children’s potential academic and professional advancement. Nevertheless, social pressures of linguistic assimilation have made HL education difficult for many migrant families across the globe. HL transmission to younger generations is particularly challenging in damunhwa [multiculture] families in South Korea since the …
Teaching minoritised children in South Korea
Most policies and teaching practices in early childhood education and care (ECEC) are based on the developmental paths of children from mainstream middle-class, White, European, heterosexual households. The common discourse often summed up as universalism significantly minoritizes children deviating from this “norm” and pathologizes their differences. Efforts toward bringing about changes in the ECEC field can start by examining individual ECEC t…
Trilingual families’ border thinking in the United States
Multilingual parents who are also transnationals navigate diverse linguistic borders while promoting rich language practices for their children. Although these parents’ practices are integral to equitably educating and nurturing multilingual students in schools, educators lack insights into parents’ thoughts and actions. Using border thinking, we examine how three trilingual families in the United States navigate linguistic injustice amid monolin…
Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (11 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (6 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (5 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)