Biography
Minkyung is a Ph.D. student specializing in Human Development in Context (HDiC). She received her bachelor’s degree in English Education from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea and earned her master’s degree in Education specializing in TESOL from University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Before coming to UC Irvine, Minkyung was an English teacher at foreign language high school and middle school in Daegu, South Korea.
Her experiences of learning multiple languages and teaching diverse groups of English learners deepened her interest in theories and measures of (second/foreign) language acquisition, reading and writing development, and how various cognitive and sociocultural components interact throughout the process. Through the doctoral studies, Minkyung hopes to better understand the functions of higher order cognitive or metalinguistic skills in reading and writing development and provide helpful guidance to language teachers in assessment and instruction.
October 2019
Minkyung is a Ph.D. student specializing in Human Development in Context (HDiC). She received her bachelor’s degree in English Education from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea and earned her master’s degree in Education specializing in TESOL from University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Before coming to UC Irvine, Minkyung was an English teacher at foreign language high school and middle school in Daegu, South Korea.
Her experiences of learning multiple languages and teaching diverse groups of English learners deepened her interest in theories and measures of (second/foreign) language acquisition, reading and writing development, and how various cognitive and sociocultural components interact throughout the process. Through the doctoral studies, Minkyung hopes to better understand the functions of higher order cognitive or metalinguistic skills in reading and writing development and provide helpful guidance to language teachers in assessment and instruction.
October 2019
