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Associate Professor of TESOL

Dr. Jayoung Choi is an associate professor of TESOL in the department of Inclusive Education at Kennesaw State University. She comes to KSU after having directed online language and literacy education programs at Georgia State University and after having led a Korean study-abroad program at Georgia Institute of Technology. She holds teaching licensure in ESOL and reading and has experience teaching and mentoring K-12, immigrant adults, undergraduate, and graduate students in the areas of language, language pedagogy, and educational research.

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About Jayoung Choi

Dr. Jayoung Choi is an associate professor of TESOL in the department of Inclusive Education at Kennesaw State University. She comes to KSU after having directed online language and literacy education programs at Georgia State University and after having led a Korean study-abroad program at Georgia Institute of Technology. She holds teaching licensure in ESOL and reading and has experience teaching and mentoring K-12, immigrant adults, undergraduate, and graduate students in the areas of language, language pedagogy, and educational research.

Present	Associate Professor of TESOL, Kennesaw State University ‐ Bagwell College of Education
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Education and Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education

Educational Intergration Research and Language Pedagogy

Phone: 470-578-2231

Email: jchoi44@kennesaw.edu

Office Location: BEB 437

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Asian English Language Learners' Identity Construction in an After School Read, Talk, & Wiki Club (Jayoung Choi) Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Dissertations (2009)

For English language learners (ELLs) who traverse two different sociocultural and linguistic worlds, identity construction is a particularly complicated process. However, examining learners’ identity construction is vital because language and literacy learning is mediated by ...

Refereed Journal Articles (12)

Addressing unsolved educational problems about linguistically diverse children: Perspectives of early childhood educators in South Korea (jayoung choi) International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (2020)

A Child’s Trilingual Language Practices in Korean, Farsi, & English: From a Sustainable Translanguaging Perspective (jayoung choi) International Journal of Multilingualism (2019)

Demystifying simultaneous triliteracy development: One child’s emergent writing practices across three scripts focusing on letter recognition, directionality, and name writing (jayoung choi) The Journal of Early Childhood Literacy (2019)

It has long been acknowledged that immigrant children who are originally exposed to home languages become rapidly socialized into using only English. Although many children ultimately develop receptive skills in their home language, they often ...

Raising children as multilinguals in the U.S. context: Perspectives from a parent and educator (jayoung choi) Multicultural Perspectives (2018)

Adolescent Multilinguals’ Engagement With Religion in a Book Club (Jayoung Choi and Gertrude Tinker Sachs) Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (2017)

The study examines four adolescent multilinguals’ engagement with religion, as well as outcomes of that engagement, in an out-of-school book club. The qualitative analysis of participants’ talk in book club meetings, writing responses, and individual ...

Teachers' Integration of Multimodality Into Classroom Practices for English Language Learners (Jayoung Choi and Youngjoo Yi) TESOL Journal (2016)

Despite the proven benefits of multimodal teaching and learning (i.e., through visual, sound, movement, print-based text, and technology) for students, little is known about how teachers of English language learners (ELLs) integrate multimodality into their ...

A Heritage Language Learner’s Literacy Practices in a Korean Language Course in a U.S. University: From a Multiliteracies Perspective (Jayoung Choi) Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications (2015)

Drawing on multiliteracies, the author examines how a multiliteracies curriculum in a 3rdyear Korean heritage language (HL) class at a southeastern U.S. university contributed to the development of a student’s HL literacy skills. Print-based and ...

Teachers' Views of Multimodal Practices in K–12 Classrooms: Voices from Teachers in the United States (Youngjoo Yi and Jayoung Choi) TESOL Quarterly (2015)

An Award-Winning ESOL Endorsement Program: A Case for Ethnographic Approaches in Teacher Education (Gertrude Tinker Sachs, Kimberly D. Carr, Patty Limb, et al.) Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications (2014)

Putting Multiliteracies Into Practice: Digital Storytelling for Multilingual Adolescents in a Summer Program (Jayoung Choi, Tuba Angay-Crowder and Youngjoo Yi) TESL Canada (2013)

In this article we demonstrate how we created a context in which digital story- telling was designed and implemented to teach multilingual middle school stu- dents in the summer program sponsored by a local nonprofit ...

The Use and Role of Pop Culture in Heritage Language Learning: A Study of Advanced Learners of Korean (Jayoung Choi and Youngjoo Yi) Foreign Language Annals (2012)

Despite the important use of pop culture in many instructional settings, its use in the heritage language (HL) classroom remains largely unexplored. Thus, this article reports findings from classroom-based qualitative research that examined the use ...

Asian English language learners’ identity construction in an after school literacy site (Jayoung Choi) Journal of Asian Pacific Communication (2009)

The importance of students’ identity development has increasingly been acknowledged in the fields of second language acquisition and literacy research. In the cases of two populations receiving growing attention in the research literature, English Language ...

Multilingual self: Inspired by a recent trip to Peru (jayoung choi) GATESOL in Action Journal (2018)

To my trilingual preschoolers (jayoung choi) Ubiquity: The Journal of Literature, Literacy and the Arts (2018)

A beginning professor’s linguistic and teaching identity (Jayoung Choi) Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications (2014)

I am a bilingual writer and teacher in both Korean and English languages. Having traveled to other countries and having lived in the United States while learning English has challenged and (re)shaped my cultural, linguistic, ...

Review of the book The translanguaging classroom: Leveraging student bilingualism for learning, by O. García, S. Ibarra Johnson, & K. Seltzer (jayoung choi, Jee Hye Park, Jihye Shin, et al.) TESOL Journal (2018)

Book Review: Maintaining three languages: the teenage years (Parents’ and teachers’ guides) (Jayoung Choi, Ji Hye Shin and Aram Cho) (2017)

Review of the book Children's literature in second language learning edited by J. Bland & C. Lütge (jayoung choi and Myoung Eun Pang) Teachers College Record (2015)