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Gyewon Jang

  • Instructor of Korean

Courses Taught

  • Third Year Korean

    Education & Training

  • Ph.D. Language and Literacy Education, Georgia State University
Representative Publications
  • Jang, G., & Tinker Sachs, G. (under review) Coming to knowingness and criticality: Intercultural learning and social justice in teacher education.

  • Jang, G., Cho, A., & Lee, H. (under review). Virtual bridges for language and culture: A global collaboration between a Korean DLI program in the U.S. and an elementary school in South Korea

  • Lee, H., & Jang, G. (2024). Disjuncture between language practices and identities in higher education: Two cases of 1.5 generation Korean American college students. The Korean Language in America, 27(2), 125-151. https://doi.org/10.5325/korelangamer.27.2.0125

  • Lee, H., & Jang, G. (2022) “The darker your skin color is, the harder it is in Korea”: Discursive construction of race in teaching abroad. TESOL Quarterly, 57(1), 168-190. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3131

  • Lee, H., & Jang, G. (2021). “I would rather say fighting ㅋㅋ”: Discursive analysis of Korean-English language exchange students’ text messages. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 25(8), 2902-2917. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2021.1993780

Conference Presentations

  • March 21-24, 2026. Jang, G., Park, J. H., Pang, M. E., & Cho, A. Reimagining Language Learning Through Community Collaboration: Digital Storytelling Between College and Heritage Korean Learners. [Paper]. AAAL. Chicago, IL, U.S.

  •  March 22-25, 2005. Park, J., Jang, G., & Cho, A. Evaluating writing revisions of Korean as a foreign language learners using ChatGPT at three institutes. [Poster]. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Denver, CO, U.S.

  •  June 18-20, 2025. Jang, G., Lee, H., & Cho, A. Enhancing Global Partnerships and STEM Learning through Virtual Exchanges: A Case Study of a Korean Dual Language Program in the U.S. [Paper]. American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK). Honolulu, HI, U.S.

Research Interests
  • Korean as a foreign/heritage language at all levels
  • Intercultural language education
  • Identity and culture in language education
  • Community-based in/formal language and literacy programs