KO-YIN SUNG
Biographic Data
| ID | 6041712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | KO-YIN SUNG |
| GIVEN NAMES | KO-YIN |
| FAMILY NAME | SUNG |
| SIGNATURE | SUNG K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utah State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6082-8641 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Stories of Chinese/Taiwanese-American Mixed-Heritage College Students: Their Mixed-Heritage Identities and Chinese/Taiwanese Heritage Maintenance
This study aims to provide a better understanding of how Chinese/Taiwanese-American mixed-heritage college students form their mixed-heritage identities and identify life events and incidents which help shape the mixed-heritage participants' identity formation and their heritage language and culture maintenance. This study involved eight Chinese/Taiwanese-American mixed heritage college students in the United States. By analyzing the in-depth one…
Oral narrative development of Mandarin Chinese dual language immersion learners
This study explored the development of oral narrative retell proficiency among Mandarin Chinese-English dual language immersion (DLI) learners in Utah. The study compared the younger and the older DLI learners’ oral narrative retelling production in order to provide information regarding the Mandarin narrative developmental trend of the DLI learners. A total of ten first graders and ten fifth graders who spoke English as their native language fro…
Young readers in a Mandarin Chinese dual-language bilingual education programme
This study investigated the oral reading strategy use of 51 first-grade readers in a Chinese Dual-Language Bilingual Education (DLBE) programme. It attempted to answer the following research questions: (1) What reading strategies do first-grade Mandarin Chinese DLBE learners employ to decode Chinese text during oral reading? (2) Do the first-grade readers of different oral reading levels employ different strategies? Reading observations and promp…
Parent satisfaction and one-way Mandarin Chinese dual-language programs in Utah
This study invited parents in 21 one-way Mandarin Chinese dual immersion programs in Utah to respond to a survey on-line. Five hundred and eighty parents participated in this study. The objectives of the survey study were to learn the parents’ reasons for enrollment, their program satisfaction, and whether there was a group difference based on the following parental demographic factors: ethnicity, income, and education. In general, the majority o…
Investigating the linguistic and pedagogical affordances of an L2 open reading environment via eComma: An exploratory study in a Chinese language course
Minority Education Plans: Stories of “Foreign Brides” in Taiwan
Factors influencing the learning of Chinese characters
This survey study, which involved 108 language learners enrolled in first-year Chinese as a foreign language classrooms in the United States, intended to address the research questions, ‘What types of Chinese-character learning strategies do US learners use?’ and ‘Do US learners’ Chinese-character learning strategy use differ based on the following learner differences: (1) Gender, (2) Home background, and (3) Previous foreign language learning ex…
Factors influencing Chinese language learners' strategy use
This survey study, which involved 134 language learners enrolled in first-year Chinese as a foreign language classrooms in the US universities, intended to address the research question, 'Do learners' strategy use differ based on the following learner differences: (1) gender; (2) home language/culture; and (3) number of other foreign languages studied'? MANOVA tests were run using the participants' responses in Oxford's Strategy Inventory for Lan…
Parent satisfaction and one-way Mandarin Chinese dual-language programs in Utah
This study invited parents in 21 one-way Mandarin Chinese dual immersion programs in Utah to respond to a survey on-line. Five hundred and eighty parents participated in this study. The objectives of the survey study were to learn the parents’ reasons for enrollment, their program satisfaction, and whether there was a group difference based on the following parental demographic factors: ethnicity, income, and education. In general, the majority o…
Young readers in a Mandarin Chinese dual-language bilingual education programme
This study investigated the oral reading strategy use of 51 first-grade readers in a Chinese Dual-Language Bilingual Education (DLBE) programme. It attempted to answer the following research questions: (1) What reading strategies do first-grade Mandarin Chinese DLBE learners employ to decode Chinese text during oral reading? (2) Do the first-grade readers of different oral reading levels employ different strategies? Reading observations and promp…
Investigating the linguistic and pedagogical affordances of an L2 open reading environment via eComma: An exploratory study in a Chinese language course
Factors influencing Chinese language learners' strategy use
This survey study, which involved 134 language learners enrolled in first-year Chinese as a foreign language classrooms in the US universities, intended to address the research question, 'Do learners' strategy use differ based on the following learner differences: (1) gender; (2) home language/culture; and (3) number of other foreign languages studied'? MANOVA tests were run using the participants' responses in Oxford's Strategy Inventory for Lan…
Factors influencing the learning of Chinese characters
This survey study, which involved 108 language learners enrolled in first-year Chinese as a foreign language classrooms in the United States, intended to address the research questions, ‘What types of Chinese-character learning strategies do US learners use?’ and ‘Do US learners’ Chinese-character learning strategy use differ based on the following learner differences: (1) Gender, (2) Home background, and (3) Previous foreign language learning ex…
Factors influencing Chinese language learners' strategy use
This survey study, which involved 134 language learners enrolled in first-year Chinese as a foreign language classrooms in the US universities, intended to address the research question, 'Do learners' strategy use differ based on the following learner differences: (1) gender; (2) home language/culture; and (3) number of other foreign languages studied'? MANOVA tests were run using the participants' responses in Oxford's Strategy Inventory for Lan…
Minority Education Plans: Stories of “Foreign Brides” in Taiwan
Investigating the linguistic and pedagogical affordances of an L2 open reading environment via eComma: An exploratory study in a Chinese language course
Parent satisfaction and one-way Mandarin Chinese dual-language programs in Utah
This study invited parents in 21 one-way Mandarin Chinese dual immersion programs in Utah to respond to a survey on-line. Five hundred and eighty parents participated in this study. The objectives of the survey study were to learn the parents’ reasons for enrollment, their program satisfaction, and whether there was a group difference based on the following parental demographic factors: ethnicity, income, and education. In general, the majority o…
Oral narrative development of Mandarin Chinese dual language immersion learners
This study explored the development of oral narrative retell proficiency among Mandarin Chinese-English dual language immersion (DLI) learners in Utah. The study compared the younger and the older DLI learners’ oral narrative retelling production in order to provide information regarding the Mandarin narrative developmental trend of the DLI learners. A total of ten first graders and ten fifth graders who spoke English as their native language fro…
Young readers in a Mandarin Chinese dual-language bilingual education programme
This study investigated the oral reading strategy use of 51 first-grade readers in a Chinese Dual-Language Bilingual Education (DLBE) programme. It attempted to answer the following research questions: (1) What reading strategies do first-grade Mandarin Chinese DLBE learners employ to decode Chinese text during oral reading? (2) Do the first-grade readers of different oral reading levels employ different strategies? Reading observations and promp…
Stories of Chinese/Taiwanese-American Mixed-Heritage College Students: Their Mixed-Heritage Identities and Chinese/Taiwanese Heritage Maintenance
This study aims to provide a better understanding of how Chinese/Taiwanese-American mixed-heritage college students form their mixed-heritage identities and identify life events and incidents which help shape the mixed-heritage participants' identity formation and their heritage language and culture maintenance. This study involved eight Chinese/Taiwanese-American mixed heritage college students in the United States. By analyzing the in-depth one…
Linguistics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (5 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Mandarin Chinese (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (3 works)