Postgraduate Researcher
www.birmingham.ac.uk/soyoung-yun
Current Status
Second year / full time
Research Topic
Young native English speaking teachers’ identity transition in Korean Schools
Research Summary
My research project will focus on the native English speaking student-teachers in Korean governmental training programme and in the actual language teaching practice. I strongly believe that all novice teachers undergo development as a teacher. With some interventions such as participation in governmental training programme and exposure to real teaching circumstance, the process of development as a teacher and identity transition process could be accelerated and vice versa. I will focus on the participants’ point of view and their experiences in Korean context. The purpose of this project is to highlight the novice student-teachers’ identity development as English teachers in Korea and as one of the members of Korean society.
Research Interests
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post colonialism
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Linguistic imperialism
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Multilingualism / multiculturalism
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Language education policy in Korea
Research Supervisors
Professor Angela Creese and Professor Adrian Blackledge