Jeeweon Shin
Modern Languages and Literatures
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Second Language Education, University of Toronto
MA Korean Studies, University of British Columbia
BA English Language and Literature, Ewha Women's University
Room UC 354
Phone (519)661-2111, ext 87078
Email: jwshin@uwo.ca
Areas of Interest
- Culture and Politics in Second Language Education
- Teaching Korean as a Foreign/Heritage Language
- Identity and Language
Publications
Refereed Publications
Resource Sharing Practices in a Mixed Korean Language Classroom: Critical Perspectives, (2009). The Korean Language in America, 14, 47-72.
Politeness and Discourse Strategies by Korean Women in Non-Traditional Authority
Positions, (2003). Acta Koreana, 6, 2, 25-54.
Refereed Publications
Activity for Intercultural Understandings, (2004) Modern Language Center Bulletin
Conference Proceeding: Politeness and Discourse Strategies through Korean TV
Dramas, (2001) The First Seoul International Conference on Discourse and Cognitive
Linguistics: Perspectives for the 21st Century, The Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics
Society of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Book Reviews
July 2004 Intercultural Experience and Education. In G. Alred, M. Byram and M. Fleming (Eds.), Language Awareness, 13, 2, 134-137
Conference Presentations
Heritage Learners’ Identity Negotiation in a Korean Language Classroom (2011). American Association of Teachers of Korean, Yale University, USA
Learners’ Identity in a Heritage Language Classroom (2011). Innovative Approaches to Second Language Teaching (IASLT). University of Western Ontario, Canada
Heritage Learners’ Identity in a Language Classroom (2010)
American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Classroom Discourses on Legitimate Learnership and Investment (2009) Second
Language Research Form (SLRF), Michigan State University, USA.
Resource Sharing Practices in a Mixed Korean Language Classroom (2009)
American Association of Teachers of Korean, University of Washington, USA.
Voices from the Margin (2009) Western Interdisciplinary Student Symposium on
Language Research (WISSLR), University of Western Ontario, Canada.
- Learners’ Identity in Language Education. Dean’s Graduate Student Research Conference (2006) OISE, University of Toronto.
- The Ethnic Identity of Second Generation Korean Canadians. (2003) The Second UWO
Conference on Applied Linguistics, London, Ontario.
- Politeness and Discourse Strategies of Korean Women at Workplaces, (2002) The First
Annual UWO Conference on Applied Linguistics, London, Ontario.
Teaching record
Korean 1030 University of Western Ontario
Korean 2200 University of Western Ontario
Korean 3300 University of Western Ontario
Korean 002 University of British Columbia
English Conversation Pai-Chai University, Korea
English Composition Pai-Chai University, Korea
English Readings Pai-Chai University, Korea
Current Project
My doctoral dissertation titled “Critical Ethnography of a Multilingual and Multicultural Korean Language Classroom: Discourses on Identity, Investment and Korean-ness” adopted critical and post-structural perspectives of language learning, and examined language learners’ identity and investment in a post-secondary Korean language classroom in Canada. In this dissertation, I explored the ways in which Korean-ness is produced through the curriculum, how an instructor’s linguistic and teaching practices function to include some students and exclude others, and how the students on the periphery cope with their marginalization. Pedagogical implications from my dissertation enable educators to equally empower students from diverse backgrounds, and help them adequately capitalize on the multilingual and multicultural practices that each student brings to the language classroom. I am currently developing a series of journal articles based on my doctoral research.
