Socioscientific Issues in LCTLs Classrooms

Sunyoung Yang (Ph.D., University of Toronto) is a cultural anthropologist and assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona, where she has directed the Korean Language Program under the theme of technology-enhanced language learning. Her research and teaching interests concentrate on the influence of new media and digital technologies on society with a focus on youth, labor, and gender issues in Korea and East Asia.

Sojung Chun (M.Ed., University of Manchester) is a Korean instructor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona. She has extensive experience teaching Korean at the elementary to high school and university level.

Young Ae Kim (Ph.D., University of Georgia) is an assistant professor at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. Her research interests include STEM education, teacher education, formative assessment, and integration of socioscientific issues in science as well as language learning.

Jieun Ryu (Ph.D., University of Arizona) is Director of the Critical Languages Program at the University of Arizona and holds a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. Her research interests include technology in L2 teaching and learning, Less Commonly Taught Languages pedagogy, and self-directed learning.

Seungmin Eum (M.Ed., Korea University; M.A., University of Delaware) is a Ph.D. student in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. He has worked as a Korean language instructor at several colleges in the U.S and Korea since 2008. His research interests are syntax, sentence processing, L2 sentence development, and Korean language education.

Seojin Park (M.A., Sookmyung Women’s University) is a Ph.D. student in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. Her research interests are identity (re)construction and second language learning/teaching of socially and culturally minoritized groups of learners/teachers.