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Dr. Paul Yul Kang 818-551-1000, email: kangusc@yahoo.com

 

 PHILOSOPHY OF

TEACHING ENGLISH IN KOREA

·         English can be acquired as long as the message is ‘comprehensible’, which is either input or output.  

EDUCATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California,                       August, 2003                                 

Doctorate in Education

·         Major: Heritage Language Development and Second Language Acquisition.

·         Minor: Applied Linguistics.

ü  Dissertation  http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll16/id/638623

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California,                  December, 1995                                                                   

Master of Science in Teaching English as a Second Language. (TESL)

ü  Advisor:  Professor Stephen Krashen.

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California,                           May, 1992

·         Bachelor of Art in Linguistics

ü  Graduated Cum Laude, National Academic Honor Society Member.

·         Hae Kwang High School, Busan, Korea,                                           부산 혜광고 졸 

ü  Vice President of the Student Government.

 

EDUCATIONAL SEVICE -------------------------------------------------------------------------

EXPERIENCE

1995-2008    Montclair College Preparatory School, Van Nuys, California 91402

             Director of School Programs

·         In charge of academic administration, also assisted with admissions, monitored students’ progress with their parents, and taught Algebra and Geometry as well.

·         Taught Classes and tutored many Korean American students and English as Second Language.

ü  Fully Accredited by Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

2002-2008      Los Angeles University, Van Nuys, California 91402

             Served as President of LAU                                                                                                           

2008-2010      Ribet Academy, College Preparatory School, Los Angeles California 90065

             Instructor:  Algebra and Geometry

ü  Fully Accredited by Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

2011-Present   Glen School International Preparatory School, California 90064

·         Administrator: handles all administrative matters of the school.  

·         Curriculum developer: devised curriculums courses as needed by the school, including                           online courses offered by the school.

                                                                                                                                                                                           PUBLICATIONS        

In publication, I use ‘Yul Kang’  ‘강율’

·         Editor of translation into Korean of Full Course: “English for Travelers”, by Tougo Katsuaki (which had been published in Japan by Oubunsha Co. 1979), published in Korea by Jun Won Moon Hwa Sa Co. 1994.

·         Free Voluntary Reading: Cross-linguistic Impact of Parental

Reading Behavior on Children’s English.  English Teaching, Vol. 58, No.1, spring 2003, published by The Korea Association of Teachers of English.

ü   http://journal.kate.or.kr/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/kate_58_1_4.pdf

 http://www.donga.com/news/article/all/19980529/7349326/1

 

UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS

·         Preliminary Investigation of Parental Attitudes about Home Language Use and their Children’s Reading.  In preparation.

·        The Effects of Heritage Language Use and Free Voluntary Reading in English upon the Acquisition of Academic English by Korean American Students.  Doctoral Dissertation for USC, 2003.

·         Parental Modeling and Their Children’s Reading Achievement.  Master’s Thesis for USC, 1995.

 

SPECIAL SKILLS

·         Bilingual:  Korean and English.

·         Computer Skills: proficient in Window10, running SPSS statistical program. 

 

학력 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

USC 영어교육학 박사, 2003 학위취득

USC 영어교육학 석사, 1995 학위취득

USC 언어학 학사, 1993 우등생 학위취득

부산 혜광고등학교,  졸

 

·         미국 남가주대 석사, 박사과정에서 영어 교육학, Teaching English as a Second and Foreign Language 을 전공 했으며,  제 2언어습득이론의 세계적인 권위자인

  Stephen Krashen, William Rutherford, John Hawkins 교수분들의 지도 하에 저의 박사학위 논문이 완성 되었습니다.  논문 주제는 ’미국 현지 고등학교 교포2세학생들의

(수능시험) Scholastic Aptitude Test, 영어 성취도에 미치는 영향’  에