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Dr. Lee Jin Choi
Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea

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Lee Jin Choi is an Assistant Professor in Department of English Education at Hongik University, South Korea. Her research focuses on Korean-English bilinguals’ language acquisition and practice, and her areas of interest include language ideology, language in the media, and language and identities in multilingual contexts. Her work has appeared in Language in Society, Language & Education, Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural & Interlanguage Communication, International Journal of Bilingualism, Teaching in Higher Education, and Gender & Language.

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Published: 14 August 2021 in Teaching in Higher Education
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This paper, using the case of South Korea, empirically examines how university students in EFL countries understand the neoliberal emphasis of English and EMI, and interpret and respond to different language ideologies. The findings demonstrate that many South Korean English language learners are caught up in a nexus of conflicting language ideologies influenced by the neoliberal promotion of English and the increasing socioeconomic polarization within South Korea. On the one hand, their investment in English language learning is largely driven by the belief that English is essential for their socioeconomic advancement. On the other hand, many perceive that the role of English as an important resource and a major criterion to measure one’s academic and professional abilities is not objective or fair. Finding calls for a more critical approach to understanding the adoption and implementation of EMI in higher education.

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Lee Jin Choi. English as an important but unfair resource: university students’ perception of English and English language education in South Korea. Teaching in Higher Education 2021, 1 -15.

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Lee Jin Choi. English as an important but unfair resource: university students’ perception of English and English language education in South Korea. Teaching in Higher Education. 2021; ():1-15.

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Lee Jin Choi. 2021. "English as an important but unfair resource: university students’ perception of English and English language education in South Korea." Teaching in Higher Education , no. : 1-15.

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Published: 09 July 2021 in Sustainability
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With the spread of COVID-19 worldwide, teaching and learning have occurred remotely and on digital platforms. An abrupt transition to online education, however, has posited unprecedented challenges for educators, who have been forced to adjust to remote learning with little to no time to prepare. Focusing on the case of an English language program in South Korea, this case study examines the challenges and strategies that were emerging in the crisis-prompted online language learning and teaching context. In particular, this case study focuses on investigating what types of strategies English as-a foreign language (EFL) instructors with little prior experience teaching online used to create a sustainable and authentic technology-mediated language learning environment, and how they motivated language learners to actively participate in sustainable language development and use. Findings provide educators and administrators who have little to no experience teaching online with practical suggestions and ideas to consider. They can use these concepts to adapt their lesson plans to online platforms and design and deliver high-quality lessons that ensure students feel connected to their learning process and have sustainable language learning experiences.

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Leejin Choi; Sunjoo Chung. Navigating Online Language Teaching in Uncertain Times: Challenges and Strategies of EFL Educators in Creating a Sustainable Technology-Mediated Language Learning Environment. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7664 .

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Leejin Choi, Sunjoo Chung. Navigating Online Language Teaching in Uncertain Times: Challenges and Strategies of EFL Educators in Creating a Sustainable Technology-Mediated Language Learning Environment. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (14):7664.

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Leejin Choi; Sunjoo Chung. 2021. "Navigating Online Language Teaching in Uncertain Times: Challenges and Strategies of EFL Educators in Creating a Sustainable Technology-Mediated Language Learning Environment." Sustainability 13, no. 14: 7664.

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Published: 29 May 2021 in Nurse Education Today
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Despite the growing popularity of English for Medical Purposes courses for nurses and nursing students in the East Asian region, relatively little research has been done to investigate whether these courses meet students' specific pragmatic or learning needs. Drawing on the analysis of questionnaires and interview data collected from 66 South Korean nursing students who enrolled in the Medial English course, the study aims to demonstrate the students' specific learning purposes and their pragmatic needs that are highly relevant to the values and conventions of the target discourse community. The findings of the study suggest that while most students agree with the need for English for Specific Purposes courses, they report that the current courses do not fully fit their needs and expectations because of (a) an English-only classroom policy, (b) limited academic literacy in English, and (c) non-localized materials. Findings help language educators, policy makers and researchers in the East Asian region to better understand the importance of looking at specificity of English for Medical Purposes courses and the students' unique needs, and provide them with suggestions for enhancing the effectiveness and specificity of English for Medical Purposes courses.

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Lee Jin Choi. Implementing English for Medical Purposes (EMP) in South Korea: Nursing students’ ongoing needs analysis. Nurse Education Today 2021, 104, 104989 .

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Lee Jin Choi. Implementing English for Medical Purposes (EMP) in South Korea: Nursing students’ ongoing needs analysis. Nurse Education Today. 2021; 104 ():104989.

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Lee Jin Choi. 2021. "Implementing English for Medical Purposes (EMP) in South Korea: Nursing students’ ongoing needs analysis." Nurse Education Today 104, no. : 104989.

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Published: 18 April 2021 in Sustainability
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The COVID-19 pandemic has posed challenges to educational systems around the world. In particular, language learning environments being impacted by the pandemic has resulted in a shift from traditional in-person to online language teaching. This paper examines the case of an English language program in South Korea to investigate how the sudden transition to online language teaching has influenced language instructors’ teaching and assessment practice. The current study also examines the level of satisfaction of instructors and students with the changing form of English language teaching and assessment practices. Results showed that a professional learning community was formed by instructors to engage in regular communication as an attempt to develop new forms of assessment practices that were process-oriented and formative. Instructors also assigned multimodal projects to promote sustainable assessments where students could actively utilize target language forms and structures. Students were highly satisfied with new forms of language assessment practices, whereas instructors’ level of satisfaction towards their language assessment practices were somewhat low. Findings provided educators with language assessment suggestions that can offer language instructors ideas to deliver more creative and sustainable language assessment strategies that can promote self-regulated learning and sustainable development.

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Sun-Joo Chung; Lee-Jin Choi. The Development of Sustainable Assessment during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of the English Language Program in South Korea. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4499 .

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Sun-Joo Chung, Lee-Jin Choi. The Development of Sustainable Assessment during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of the English Language Program in South Korea. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (8):4499.

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Sun-Joo Chung; Lee-Jin Choi. 2021. "The Development of Sustainable Assessment during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of the English Language Program in South Korea." Sustainability 13, no. 8: 4499.

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Published: 12 March 2021 in Sustainability
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In the context of globalization, the landscape of language in Korea has changed dramatically in the last three decades because of the influx of marriage migrants and foreign workers. The growing number of immigrant and international marriages has led to the emergence of new linguistic minorities in Korea who have multicultural and multilingual backgrounds, and they challenge Korea’s long-lasting tradition of linguistic homogeneity and purity. Language related education for this newly emerging group of language minority students, whose number has increased dramatically since the late-1990s, has become a salient issue. This paper critically analyzes the current education policies and programs designed for the newly emerging group of language minority students, and examines the prospects for sustainable development of these students in Korea. In particular, it focuses on the underlying ideology of linguistic nationalism and assimilationist integration regime embedded in various education policy initiatives and reforms, which require language minority students to forgo their multilingual background and forcibly embrace linguistic homogeneity. The paper elaborates on alternative educational programs that could enable language minority students to achieve sustainable development and progress.

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Lee Choi. Educating Language Minority Students in South Korea: Multilingual Sustainability and Linguistic Human Rights. Sustainability 2021, 13, 3122 .

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Lee Choi. Educating Language Minority Students in South Korea: Multilingual Sustainability and Linguistic Human Rights. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (6):3122.

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Lee Choi. 2021. "Educating Language Minority Students in South Korea: Multilingual Sustainability and Linguistic Human Rights." Sustainability 13, no. 6: 3122.

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Published: 05 March 2021 in British Journal of Sociology of Education
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In the process of neoliberal globalization, the number of pre-college-aged educational migrants from English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) countries, often referred to as an early study abroad (ESA) student, has dramatically increased over recent decades in many English-speaking countries. Much of previous research on these educational migrants has primarily focused on parents’ perspectives and involvement, and ignoring the engagement of and investment made by ESA students themselves. By analyzing transcripts of qualitative interviews with fifteen former early study-abroad students from Korea, this paper investigates how these ESA students narrate their experiences of early study abroad and how they understand their roles and experiences in the process. Findings of this paper show that ESA students’ ways of thinking and approaches to their educational trajectory and language learning strongly resonate with a practice of neoliberal responsibilization, by which each student is made responsible for her own choices and their consequences.

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Lee Jin Choi. The student as an enterprising self: Neoliberalism, English and early study abroad. British Journal of Sociology of Education 2021, 42, 374 -387.

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Lee Jin Choi. The student as an enterprising self: Neoliberalism, English and early study abroad. British Journal of Sociology of Education. 2021; 42 (3):374-387.

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Lee Jin Choi. 2021. "The student as an enterprising self: Neoliberalism, English and early study abroad." British Journal of Sociology of Education 42, no. 3: 374-387.

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Published: 25 August 2020 in Multilingua
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As the public health threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic is still evolving globally, many linguistic minorities are struggling to obtain accurate and timely health information about the disease and its prevention and treatment in their native language. This study argues that existing ethnic online communities can play an important role in dealing with such health information disparities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. By analyzing the activities and postings on an online community of Chinese international students in South Korea, this paper illustrates that the community functions as a virtual hub that produces and disseminates up-to-date and essential information about COVID-19 and provides a platform for users to share experiences and emotions accompanying the unprecedented situation. This study points out that the participation of Chinese international students in the online community is voluntary and based on established infrastructure because of the presence of a greater number of Chinese students in South Korea. Thus, it urges the government and local authorities to be more aware of the importance of providing adequate support and guidance to linguistic minorities in such uncertain and frightening times.

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In Chull Jang; Lee Jin Choi. Staying connected during COVID-19: The social and communicative role of an ethnic online community of Chinese international students in South Korea. Multilingua 2020, 39, 541 -552.

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In Chull Jang, Lee Jin Choi. Staying connected during COVID-19: The social and communicative role of an ethnic online community of Chinese international students in South Korea. Multilingua. 2020; 39 (5):541-552.

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In Chull Jang; Lee Jin Choi. 2020. "Staying connected during COVID-19: The social and communicative role of an ethnic online community of Chinese international students in South Korea." Multilingua 39, no. 5: 541-552.