Lee Young-ja
Hanyang University
研究室紹介
Professor Lee Young-ja's research lab specializes in applied linguistics and second language acquisition, with a focus on bilingual language development and specific language impairment in multilingual contexts. The lab investigates how children acquire and process two languages, particularly identifying and supporting those with bilingual specific language impairment (bilingual SLI). Another key direction involves the pedagogical use of narrative texts, exploring how deep reader engagement with stories fosters coherent understanding and linguistic development in language classrooms. The lab emphasizes the importance of narrative comprehension as a foundation for language learning and literacy.
Research Overview
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Selected Papers
3The aim of this paper is to explicate the nature of bilingual specific language impairment (SLI) addressing the need to identify it. In the States, where this study was mainly conducted, as well as many other parts of the world, children get to acquire the second language. In most of the cases, they acquire it rather naturally in the second language environment. But evidently, there are cases where they exhibit clear signs of specific language impairment. The children with bilingual SLI need to
Reading a story is getting involved in the dialogue with the story. What experiences do the readers share with the people, events and thoughts in the story and the author? To answer these questions, we analyze the story, Make Way for Ducklings by McCloskey (1941). Using the concepts of Frame, Involvement, and Evaluation, our analysis shows that the dialogue is multi- layered, both story and dialogue with the story are organic, and getting engaged in the dialogue is crucial to grasp the coherence