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I am a teacher educator and researcher in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. My research interests include computer-assisted language learning, language teacher education, language testing, and aviation English. I work as an Associate Professor in the Department of English Education at Jeju National University, Korea. I teach undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
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September 2010 - December 2015
August 2008 - July 2010
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It is essential for second/foreign/additional language teachers to develop their competence in the use of digital technologies for language teaching in digital environments. This article explores language teacher development in technology integration in terms of exploration, communication, collaboration, and reflection (ECCR). It presents the resul...
This study examined the relationships between kindergartens teachers’ emotional labour strategies and their relations to instructional leadership, trust in colleagues, teaching experiences, and teaching satisfaction. With a sample of 491 kindergarten teachers in Hong Kong, this study found that surface acting negatively predicted while deep acting...
Despite the significant role of teachers in assessment (Kim & Jang, 2019), their voice has been neglected in washback literature. In Hong Kong, curriculum and examination are ever-changing in order to provide better education for learners. Since 2004, a Territory-wide System Assessment (TSA) has been implemented into the school curriculum. Teachers...
Research on TPACK has been burgeoning recently. Some review studies in the field of educational technology have indicated issues and trends in TPACK research conducted in the past decades. However, a review of TPACK research specific to language teachers' knowledge about language teaching with technology has been lacking. To fill this research gap,...
The precision and effectiveness of the communication between air traffic controllers and pilots is literally a matter of life or death. Speakers of aeronautical English, the language of communication in the realm of aviation, are required by the ICAO to meet a minimum standard of language performance across the communication skills of listening and...
As an intimidating school subject for students globally, writing requires a high level of motivation, especially for second language (L2) learners. Despite abundant research on motivation in both first language (L1) writing and L2 learning, L2 writing motivation warrants more attention. To bridge the gap, the study intends to present an overall pic...
Digital technology plays a crucial role in modern second/foreign language education. Enormous changes in technology and the growing emphasis on 21st century skills raise a concern about English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers' competencies in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) more than ever. In response to the mounting concern, this s...
This study investigates the extent to which university teachers’ beliefs about classroom writing assessment are congruent with their self-perceived practices in English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) contexts, and what factors contribute to belief-practice inconsistencies. Drawing on data from a survey of 136 Chinese university EFL writing teachers an...
It has been over a decade since the International Civil Aviation Organization proposed Language Proficiency Requirements to improve aviation English proficiency and air safety through adequate aviation English tests. Yet, many of the aviation English assessment procedures appear to not meet international professional standards for language tests. A...
The present work synthesizes the studies in flipped language education based on Social Sciences Citation Index publications up to the year 2018. A sum of 33 studies were finalized as the targeted studies and our research questions were formulated regarding (1) the overall trend and features of the existing studies, (2) their research foci, (3) the...
In many English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts, learning is often limited to decontextualized classroom learning, and students suffer from lack of interaction and authentic opportunities for language learning. One of the recent emerging technologies, context-aware augmented reality (AR) technology can mitigate this problem for EFL classrooms....
Aviation English proficiency is a core competency in the global air traffic controller profession. There is, however, growing concern about the current ineffective paper-based assessment methods and the severe lack of interactive online testing for such a critical profession, one that should be ideally assessed in an authentic task and situation (A...
This article discusses the concept of digital literacy and presents a digital literacy questionnaire containing questions related to the use of digital technologies and the level of digital literacy skills. It also reports the results of two studies that used the digital literacy questionnaire to investigate the digital literacy level of 100 Englis...
In response to the research priorities of members of TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), this study investigated language learners’ real-world tasks in mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) to inform the future development of pedagogic tasks for academic English as a second language (ESL) courses. The data included initia...
This paper offers a novel approach to training instructional designers within the context of a student-led service center, Learning Design Solutions (LearnDS). It describes a unique milieu for graduate students to practice and sharpen their instructional design, leadership, and entrepreneurial skills. Through LearnDS, members and collaborators enga...