Biography
Hyun-Sook Kang earned her Ph.D. in Educational Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education in 2007, and prior to her post in EPOL, she was on the faculty in the Linguistics Department at Illinois, Illinois State University, and the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is currently serving as Co-Editor of Journal of Language, Identity, and Education.
Research Interests
Hyun’s research interests center on language learning and practice in relation to transnational mobility, such as immigration and study abroad. Her works have appeared in international peer-reviewed journals, such as Bilingual Research Journal, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Language Awareness, Modern Language Journal, and TESOL Quarterly. Her research has been supported by the Academy of Korean Studies, Cambridge Michigan Language Assessment, Language Learning Small Grant Program, and U of I GATE Program.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
Associate Professor, Center for Global Studies
Associate Professor, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Recent Publications
Kang, H-S., & Shively , R. (Accepted/In press). Researching language-focused study abroad through an equity lens: A research agenda . Language Teaching.
Kang, H. S., & Pak, Y. (2023). Student Engagement in Online Graduate Program in Education: A Mixed-Methods Study. American Journal of Distance Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/08923647.2023.2175560
Oyama, T., & Kang, H-S. (2023). Discourse-Based Grammar Instruction in ESL Academic Writing: A Mixed Methods Study. Language Awareness. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658416.2022.2163495
Kang, H. S., & Uchikoshi, Y. (2022). Child Second Language Development of English Tense and Aspect: The Role of Narrative Organization . Applied Psycholinguistics, 43(4), 785-804. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716422000145
Kang, H. S., Kim, N., & Christianson, K. (2022). Grammatical aspect and world knowledge in second language reading. IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 60(2), 411-435. https://doi.org/10.1515/iral-2018-0328