Youngjoo Yi

Assistant Professor, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
240D Graves Hall
(205)-348-9499
yyi@ua.edu
Appointed in 2005

Recent Courses Taught:

CSE 480/580: Methods in Teaching Languages
CIE 527/627: Teaching Literacy to Second Language Learners
CIE 567: Improving Foreign Language Instruction
CIE 576/676: Linguistics for Classroom Teaching
CIE 577: Second Language Acquisition: Issues, Theories, and Instructional Implications

Areas of Research:

In-school and Out-of-school Literacy Development of English Language Learners
Digital Literacies and Technologies
Language and Identity
Second/Foreign Language Teacher Education
Ethnography

Academic Degrees:

Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2005. Second and Foreign Langauge Education
M.TESL, Arizona State University, 1998. Teaching English as a Second Language
B.A., Kyungpook National University, 1995. History Education (Minor: English Education)

Professional Experiences:

Assistant Professor, The College of Education, Second Language Acquisition of Teaching Program, University of Alabama; Faculty Affiliate, TESOL program, Department of English, University of Alabama, 2005-present

Classroom teacher: 1996-1998, 1998-2000, 2004-2005

Selected Publications:

Yi, Y. (2008, in press). Relay writing in an adolescent online community. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 51(6).

Yi, Y. (2008, in press). Voluntary writing in heritage language: A study of biliterate Korean-heritage adolescents in the U.S. Heritage Language Journal, 6(1).

Hirvela, A., & Yi, Y. (2008). From expectations to empowerment: How a mentor and dissertation writer negotiated the intricacies of a qualitative result chapter. In C. Casanave, & X. Li (Eds.), Learning the literacy practices of graduate school: Insiders’ reflections on academic enculturation (pp. 121-133). Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.

Yi, Y. (2007) Engaging literacy: A biliterate student’s composing practices beyond school. Journal of Second Language Writing, 16(1), 23-39.

Yi, Y. (2006). Review of controversies in second Language writing: Dilemmas and decisions in research and instruction, by Christine Pearson Casanave. English for Specific Purposes, 25, 490-493.

Yi, Y. (2005). Asian adolescents’ in and out-of-school encounters with English and Korean literacy. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 15(1), 57-77.

Selected Presentations:

Yi, Y. (2007, April) A Korean high school English language learner’s transitions across in and out-of-school writing. Symposium title: Writing and literacies and culturally and linguistically diverse students. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL.

Hirvela, A., & Yi, Y. (2007, March). Defining Generation 1.5 students’ writing practices. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Seattle, WA.

Yi, Y., & Pyo, J. (2006, January). Creating “????” (“Cy(ber)-world”): Online literacy practices for maintaining Korean heritage. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of National Association of Bilingual Education (NABE), Phoenix, AZ.

Yi, Y. (2005, July). What can applied linguistics contribute to Generation 1.5 literacy research? Paper presented at the 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA), Madison, WI.

Yi, Y. (2005, April). Investigating adolescent ELLs’ literacy engagement in an online community: Negotiating literacy and identity in cyberspace. In E. Lam (Chair), Literacy and language learning across online and offline spaces (symposium with Rebecca Black, Rodney King, and Eva Lam; Discussants: James Paul Gee and Kevin Leander). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA), Montreal, Canada.