Minkyung is working on a project to examine perspective taking, one’s knowledge of and inferences about others’ mental and emotional states, in argumentative writing of secondary students. Through developing a coding scheme, she will examine the extent to which students include perspectives in their argumentative essays and how perspective taking relates to overall writing quality score. Moreover, she will examine how cognitive strategies-based writing instruction improves students’ perspective taking. In the future, she seeks to employ text and discourse analytics to better operationalize perspective taking and develop tools to assess or scaffold the development of higher order cognitive skills in both conventional and online writing settings.
Minkyung is a Ph.D. student at UC Irvine specializing in Human Development in Context (HDiC). She received her bachelor’s degree in English Education from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea and earned her master’s degree in Education specializing in TESOL from University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Before coming to UC Irvine, Minkyung was an English teacher at foreign language high school and middle school in Daegu, South Korea.
Her experiences of learning multiple languages and teaching diverse groups of English learners deepened her interest in theories and measures of (second/foreign) language acquisition, reading and writing development, and how various cognitive and sociocultural components interact throughout the process. Through her doctoral studies, Minkyung hopes to better understand the functions of higher order cognitive or metalinguistic skills in reading and writing development and provide helpful guidance to language teachers in assessment and instruction.
Minkyung is a Ph.D. student at UC Irvine specializing in Human Development in Context (HDiC). She received her bachelor’s degree in English Education from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea and earned her master’s degree in Education specializing in TESOL from University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Before coming to UC Irvine, Minkyung was an English teacher at foreign language high school and middle school in Daegu, South Korea.
Her experiences of learning multiple languages and teaching diverse groups of English learners deepened her interest in theories and measures of (second/foreign) language acquisition, reading and writing development, and how various cognitive and sociocultural components interact throughout the process. Through her doctoral studies, Minkyung hopes to better understand the functions of higher order cognitive or metalinguistic skills in reading and writing development and provide helpful guidance to language teachers in assessment and instruction.
