Biography
Minkyung is a Ph.D. student studying language and literacy development for elementary and secondary students. She is particularly interested in how students account for their social contexts in producing oral and written language. Her early research focused on perspective taking in adolescent writing. Currently, she is working on examining elementary students’ oral language use in (de)contextualized conditions. Find her published studies here.
Minkyung 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. Through her doctoral studies, Minkyung hopes to better understand the linguistic and cognitive skills required for language and literacy development, with the goal of providing helpful guidance to language teachers in assessment and instruction.
Research interests: language and literacy development, linguistic and cognitive skills, academic language, English language learners
Minkyung is a Ph.D. student studying language and literacy development for elementary and secondary students. She is particularly interested in how students account for their social contexts in producing oral and written language. Her early research focused on perspective taking in adolescent writing. Currently, she is working on examining elementary students’ oral language use in (de)contextualized conditions. Find her published studies here.
Minkyung 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. Through her doctoral studies, Minkyung hopes to better understand the linguistic and cognitive skills required for language and literacy development, with the goal of providing helpful guidance to language teachers in assessment and instruction.
Research interests: language and literacy development, linguistic and cognitive skills, academic language, English language learners
