Jin Sook Lee

• University of California, Santa Barbara

This study examines the experiences of mixed-race Korean Americans in their journey to develop and use their heritage language, Korean. Through in-depth autobiographical interviews. Participants highlighted the role of ‘Korean-speaking spaces’ such as Korean churches or grocery stores, where the expectation is to speak Korean, as important sites fo...

Two-Way Immersion (TWI) programs have demonstrated positive outcomes in students’ academic achievement in English, yet less is known about content teaching and learning in the non-English language in these programs. This study uses math instruction as a lens to identify pedagogical strategies and challenges in the teaching of math in Korean to bili...

We developed a capstone science methods course to better support preservice teachers in learning how both to teach science in ways attentive to English Language Learners (ELLs) and to develop an adaptive disposition to engage in reflection on their teaching of ELLs. Our course embodies three principles: (1) building from students’ funds of knowledg...

p class="AbstractText">For children from immigrant families, opportunities to develop additive bilingualism exist, yet bilingual attainment has varied widely. Given the significance of language development opportunities in home settings, this study examines the home language use of 20 second-generation children (ages 6-8) of Mexican and Korean desc...

In this study, we examined the bilingual language development among Korean American first-graders in two southern California cities and explored the opportunities for language use available to them in various spaces: at school (one dual language immersion school and one traditional English-only public school), at home, and in the community. Data co...

Many Korean American (KA) families live at the intersection of two languages and two cultures. When considering how parent-child relationships are negotiated through daily interactions within perceived parameters of cultural norms and expectations, it becomes important to better understand which cultural norms and expectations are taken up by diffe...

American Speech teaching american speech team collaboration and educ ational partnership in sociocultural linguistics mary bucholtz, dolores ines casillas, and jin sook lee, University of California, Santa Barbara Sociocultural linguists are strongly committed to bringing insights about language into schools and classrooms (e.g., Rickford and Rickf...

Prompted by a concern that the cognitivist orientation and monolingual biases of current language assessment practices may unwittingly perpetuate deficit perspectives on language minority children, this paper examines the linguistic, interactional, and identity resources that Spanish–English bilingual children used to co-construct interactional com...

This study documents how an urban high school science teacher engaged her English Language Learners (ELLs) in the discourse-intensive science and engineering practices of (1) arguing from evidence and (2) obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information. The teacher taught an introductory integrated science course to classes with a large percen...

This qualitative study examines the experiences of Korean-American students, parents and teachers in a newly instituted 50/50 Korean–English dual language immersion programme, where the majority of the students are of Korean descent. Based on home and school observations, as well as interviews with six Korean-American students and their parents and...

Heritage language (HL) maintenance refers to the preservation of an immigrant (e.g., Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, Russian), an indigenous (e.g., Cherokee, Zuni, Chumash), or a colonial (e.g., Spanish, French, or German from earlier settlers in North America) language (Fishman, 2001). Keywords: bilingualism; language maintenance; heritage languages;...

In settings where speakers of two or more different languages coexist, language brokering, the act of interpreting and translating between culturally and linguistically different speakers, is commonly practiced. Yet the examination of language brokering and its implications in classroom settings have not received much attention in the literature. T...

This article documents the heritage-language (HL) literacy practices of three Japanese American families residing in a predominantly Anglo and Latino community. Through interviews and observations, this study investigates Japanese children's HL-literacy practices, parental attitudes toward HL literacy, and challenges in HL-literacy development in a...

This paper examines language-brokering events to better understand how children utilize their linguistic resources to create spaces where the coexistence of two languages can enable or restrict understanding and learning of academic content for themselves and others. An analysis of the structure of language-brokering events reveals that different d...

The life chances of students are determined by their ability to interact critically with the discourses around them, while still avoiding the temptation to be seduced by the disempowering messages those discourses often contain. The discourse surrounding children teaches them who they are, what their place is in the world and what they need to do t...

Most studies of heritage language maintenance have reported a steep attrition in heritage language use among the 1.5 and 2nd generation children of immigrants, in particular among East Asian groups. However, not much is known about the role of heritage languages and the patterns of language maintenance within refugee communities. This study focuses...

This study investigates how learners of the less commonly taught languages (LCTLs) (i.e., Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Swahili, Yoruba) perceive their identities as heritage or non-heritage language learners. A survey of 530 college-level language learners reveals that heritage and non-heritage learn...

Through a sociolinguistic analysis of interactional spaces created by the teachers and students at one 50/50 dual immersion school, this study examines how teachers present and implement this school's language policy and how these practices are reproduced and transformed through the language choices of the students in their daily interactions. The...

This paper examines teachers' attitudes towards their students' heritage language maintenance and their engagement in classroom practices that may or may not affirm the value of maintaining and developing heritage languages among students. Through surveys and interviews with K–12 teachers in California public schools, the data show that the nature...

This paper focuses on the electronic literacy practices of two Korean-American heritage language learners who manage Korean weblogs. Online users deliberately alter standard forms of written language and play with symbols, characters, and words to economize typing effort, mimic oral language, or convey qualities of their linguistic identity such as...

This study investigates how learners of the less commonly taught languages (LCTLs) (i.e., Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Swahili, Yoruba) perceive their identities as heritage or non-heritage language learners. A survey of 530 college-level language learners reveals that heritage and non-heritage learn...

The paper examines the role of cultural identity and heritage language maintenance among the lives of 40 second-generation Korean-American university students in the United States. The study focuses on three questions: (1) what is the level of heritage language proficiency and language use among second generation Korean-American youths?; (2) which...

Introduction The idea for this special issue of the Heritage Language Journal on Korean grew out of a symposium on Bilingualism and Biculturalism in the Korean American Community at the 2005 International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) conference in Wisconsin, Madison organized by Jin Sook Lee and Adrienne Lo. The broad participation and...