Brief Biography
Gayoung Choi is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Teaching,
Learning, and Teacher Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Originally from South Korea, she is a qualified English educator and holds a
teacher's license in Elementary Education (K-6) from Korea. Her teaching
experience includes two years as an elementary teacher in a Korean public
school and three and a half years as an English teacher in two other public
schools in Korea. As a school teacher, she has various professional
experience, including being a director of the English Department in a public
school, where she taught and supervised an English native teacher working in
Korea, serving a director of the Department of Technology and Information,
and conducting academic school reports, especially for students who studied
abroad or returned to Korea.
She completed her bachelor's degree from Chuncheon National University of
Education (CNUE) with a specialization in Elementary Education and minors in
English Language. Additionally, she holds a Master of Education with a focus
on English Education from CNUE. Apart from her academic pursuits, as a
non-native speaker, she possesses a strong interest in exploring teaching
languages and their structures, as well as learning multiple languages.
Research Interests
Teaching English as a Second language/Foreign Language
English Teacher Education and Teacher Identity
Teaching Literacy, Reading, and writing
Teaching English writing for non-native learners
Multimedia assisted language learning and teaching (Teaching English using
technology)
World Englishes, English as a lingua franca (EIL/ELF) / English history
Bilingual education
Publications & Conference Presentations
Yoon, Tecnam. Choi, Gayoung. (2023). “Elementary English Learners’
Perceptions on the Oral Rehearsal in Writing Activity.” Studies in Foreign
Language Education 37(2): 25 – 38.
Kim, In-Ok. Choi, Gayoung. (2022). “An Analysis of interaction, vocabulary
learning, and participation throughout a social media-based English
Program.” Primary English Education 28(3): 113-132.
Yoon, Tecnam. Choi, Gayoung. (2021). “A Study of Primary Pre-service
Teachers’ Perceptions on Multicultural Embedded English Education.” The
Journal of the Korea Contents Association 21(4): 359-369.
Choi, Gayoung. Yoon, Tecnam. (2020). “A Case Study of Primary School
Students’ Perceptions towards Online English Education.” Korean Journal
of Elementary Education 31(4): 145-160.
Yoon, Tecnam. Seok, KyeongO, Choi, Gayoung. (2019). “A study of elementary
school students’ vocabulary and affective domain changes using
wordclouds.” Studies in Foreign Language Education 33(4): 429-447.