Curriculum Vitae of

Andrew Sangpil Byon

Dept. of East Asian Studies HU-210

University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY 12222

TEL (518) 442-2597 (voice) / Fax (518) 442-4118 /

E-mail: andrewbyon ualbany@yahoo.com    abyon@albany.edu

 

 

August 23, 2008

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

Place of Birth:               Seoul, Korea

Nationality:                    U.S.A.

Military service:             US Army Reserve (1987-1993)

 

 

PRESENT APPOINTMENT

 

Associate Professor (tenured)

      University at Albany, State University of New York (Department of East Asian Studies),

      2008 - Present

     

 

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

 

Assistant Professor

      University at Albany, State University of New York (Department of East Asian Studies),

      2002 - 2008

 

Full time Lecturer II of Korean Studies

      The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (Department of Asian Languages and Cultures),

      2000 - 2002   

 

Lecturer in Korean

      The University of Hawaii at Manoa (Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures),

1999 - 2000

 

Korean language and history instructor.

      Korean Culture School of Honolulu, December 1996-July 2000.

 

Korean/ Japanese/ English translator.

      Yonsei International Interpretation Association, Seoul, Korea. October 1994-February 1996.

     

 

EDUCATION

 

PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures (Korean applied linguistics), 2001

      The University of Hawai’i at Manoa.

      Ph.D. dissertation: The communicative act of requests: The interlanguage features of

      American KFL learners.

 

MA in East Asian Studies (modern Korean history), 1996

      Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

      MA dissertation: Reevaluation of colonial economic development.

 

BA in East Asian Studies (Japanese and Korean linguistics), 1993

      The University of Hawai’i at Manoa.

 

 

LANGUAGES

Korean            Native speaker.

English            Near native fluency.

Japanese         Advanced fluency.

 

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Major

·         Korean-as-a-foreign language (KFL) pedagogy.

·         Sociolinguistics (e.g., intercultural pragmatics).

·         Second language acquisition (e.g., language socialization perspectives and L2 pragmatics).

Minor

·         Language and culture of Korea.

·         Korean civilization (History, literature and thought pattern).

·         Simultaneous interpretation (Japanese, Korean, and English).

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Books

 

Byon, A. (in press). Basic Korean: A Grammar and Workbook. London and New York: Routledge [ISBN-10: 041577487X] 246 pages. (http://www.routledge.com/books/Basic-Korean-isbn9780415774871)

 

 

Refereed journal articles

 

Byon, A. (in press). The Korean-as-a-foreign language education in the US instructional settings. Language, Culture and Curriculum. Multilingual Matters. [ISSN: 0790-8318].

 

Byon, A. (2007). The process-driven culture learning in American KFL classroom settings. Applied Language Learning 17 (1 & 2), 73-90. Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. [ISSN: 1041-679X].

 

Byon, A. (2007). The use of culture portfolio project in a Korean culture classroom: Evaluating stereotypes and enhancing cross-cultural awareness. Language, Culture and Curriculum 20 (1), 1-19. Multilingual Matters. [ISSN: 0790-8318].

 

Byon, A. (2006). Developing KFL students’ pragmatic awareness of Korean speech acts: The use of Discourse Completion Tasks. Language Awareness 15 (4), 244-263. Multilingual Matters. [ISSN: 0965-8416].

 

Byon, A. (2006). Language socialization in Korean-as-a-Foreign-Language classrooms. Bilingual Research Journal 30 (2), 265-291. National Association for Bilingual Education. [ISSN: 1523-5882].

 

Byon, A. (2006). The role of linguistic indirectness and honorifics in achieving linguistic politeness in Korean request. Journal of Politeness Research 2 (2), 247-276. Mouton de Gruyter. [ISSN: 1612-5681].

 

Byon, A. (2005). Teaching pragmatic competence through speech acts: American KFL instructional settings. Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language 30, 77-112. Yonsei University Press. [ISSN: 1598-8201].

 

Byon, A. (2005). Apologizing in Korean: Cross-cultural analysis in American KFL classroom settings. Korean Studies 29, 137-166. The University of Hawaii Press. [ISSN: 0145-840X].

 

Byon, A. (2005). Classroom Assessment Tools and students’ affective stances: KFL classroom settings. Language and Education 19 (3), 173-193.Multilingual Matters. [ISSN: 0950-0782].

 

Byon, A. (2005). Teaching composition skills: Using peer editing tasks. Journal of Korean Language Education 16 (1), 299-325. International Association of Korean Language Education. [ISSN: 1225-6137].

 

Byon, A. (2004). Sociopragmatic analysis of Korean requests: Pedagogical setting. Journal of Pragmatics, 36 (9), 1673-1704. Elsevier. [ISSN: 0378-2166].

 

Byon, A. (2004). Learning linguistic politeness. Applied Language Learning, 14 (1), 37-62. Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. [ISSN: 1041-679X].

 

Byon, A. (2004). Understanding the reading process of beginning KFL learners: Using Think-Aloud Protocols. Journal of Korean Language Education 15 (1), 259-280. International Association of Korean Language Education. [ISSN: 1225-6137].

 

Byon, A. (2003). Language socialization and Koreans as a heritage language: A study of Hawaiian classrooms. Language, Culture and Curriculum 16 (3), 269-283. Multilingual Matters. [ISSN: 0790-8318].

 

Byon, A. (2003). The Korean speech act of refusals: Sociopragmatic analysis. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 11(1), 241-270. Sociolinguistic Society of Korea. [ISSN: 1226-4822].

 

Byon, A. (2003). Analysis of speech performance variation of a KFL learner. Journal of Korean Language Education 14 (1), 343-366. International Association of Korean Language Education. [ISSN: 1225-6137].

 

Byon, A. (2002). Pragmalinguistic features of KFL learners in the speech act of requests. Korean Linguistics 11, 151-182. International Circle of Korean Linguistics. [ISSN: 0257-3784].

 

 

Refereed book chapters

 

Byon, A. (2006). Korean cultural values in request behaviors. In H. Sohn (Ed.), Korean Language in Culture and Society (pp. 174-188).  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. [ISBN: 0-8248-2694-9].

 

 

Refereed articles in other publications

 

Byon, A.  (2007). Teaching the polite and deferential speech levels, using media materials: The advanced KFL classroom settings. In D. Yoshimi and H. Wang (eds.), Selected Papers from Pragmatics in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean classroom: The State of the Art (pp. 21-64). Honolulu: NFLRC, University of Hawaii at Manoa. (http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/CJKProceedings/)

 

Byon, A. (2005). Teaching refusals in Korean. In H. Wang (Ed.), The Korean Language in America Vol. 10:  Selected Papers from the Tenth Annual Conference. (pp. 1- 18) Brown University, RI: American Association of Teachers of Korean.

 

Major conference proceedings / Invited articles (non-refereed)

 

Byon, A. (2007). Academic approaches to KFL education: Research issues in the teaching of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The Conference Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Korean Language Education (pp. 259-285). Seoul: The International Association for Korean Language Education.

 

Byon, A. (2004). Teaching culture skills to elementary KFL students. In H. Kim (Ed.), The Korean Language in America Vol. 9. (pp. 15-30). Duke University, NC: American Association of Teachers of Korean. 

 

Byon, A (2003). KFL learners’ ability to assess linguistic politeness. In Y. Clare (Ed.), The Korean Language in America Vol. 8. (pp. 95-112). U.C. Berkeley, CA: American Association of Teachers of Korean.

 

Byon, A. (2002). The proposed syllabus of KOREAN 600 ‘Introduction to KFL pedagogy’. In J. Ree (Ed.), The Korean Language in America Vol. 7 (pp. 89-105). The University of Hawaii, HI: American Association of Teachers of Korean.

 

Byon, A. (2001). Developing a business Korean course based on a systematic approach. In J. Ree (Ed.), The Korean Language in America Vol. 6 (pp. 153-170). The University of Hawaii, HI: American Association of Teachers of Korean.

 

Byon, A. (2000). Teaching Korean honorifics. In S. Sohn (Ed.), The Korean Language in America Vol. 5 (pp. 275-289). UCLA., CA: American Association of Teachers of Korean.

 

Byon, A. (1999). The Analysis of ‘yo’ the politeness marker in Korean: from language socialization point of view. In S. Kang (Ed.), The Korean Language in America Vol. 4 (pp.125-140). Monterey, CA: American Association of Teachers of Korean.

 

 

Works in progress

 

Byon, A. (in progress). Intermediate Korean: A Grammar and Workbook. London and New York: Routledge (under contract; the expected date of publication: Spring 2010).

 

Articles

 

Byon, A. (in preparation for submission). Assessing listening comprehension strategies of the third-year American KFL students.

 

Byon, A. (in progress).The pedagogical implications of the take-home journal writing assignment: American KFL instructional settings.

 

 

Invited lecture/ presentation

2007     An invited presenter: A talk entitled:  “Academic Approaches to KFL education: Research issues in the teaching of listening, speaking, reading and writing” for the 17th International Academic Conference of International Association for Korean Language Education (travel expense defrayed by the conference), August 11-12, 2007, Seoul, Korea.

 

2006     An invited workshop presenter “Teaching the polite and the deferential speech levels, using media materials: Advanced KFL classroom settings” for the conference, Teaching and learning pragmatics in the Chinese, Japanese and Korean as a Foreign Language classrooms (travel expense defrayed by the conference), June 5-7, 2006, the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

 

2005     An invited panelist for The 15th Japanese/Korean Pre-Conference Workshop. (travel expense defrayed by the conference), October 6, 2005, the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

 

 

Refereed presentation (regional, national, and international meetings)

2007     American college students' stereotypes in Korean culture teaching: Using culture portfolio projects. Paper presented at the 12th AATK2007 Annual Conference, June 14-16, The University of Chicago. IL, USA.

2006     Vocabulary building strategies. Panel presentation (co-presented with S. Cho, M. Park, S. Sung, and H. Wang) at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Annual National Convention, November 15- 19, Nashville, TN.

2006     Understanding listening comprehension strategies of the third year KFL students. Paper, presented at the 11th AATK 2006 Annual Conference, June 23-24, Rutgers University, NJ.

2005    Teaching how to refuse in Korean: Pedagogical implications in KFL classroom. Paper, presented at the 10th AATK 2005 Annual Conference, August 12-13, Brigham Young University, Utah.

2004     Teaching culture skills to elementary KFL students. Paper, presented at the 9th AATK 2004 Annual Conference, June 25- June 26, Duke University, NC, U.S.A.

2003     Heritage and non-heritage issues in KFL programs in the US college setting. Panel presentation at the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, October 9-11, hosted by the Arizona State University, AZ.

2003     KFL learners’ ability to assess linguistic politeness. Paper, presented at the 8th AATK 2003 Annual Conference, June 25- June 28, 2003, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.

2000     Cross-linguistic studies in the speech act of correction. Paper, presented at the PAAL 2000 Conference, July 23-26, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.

 

 

Non-refereed presentation (regional, national, and international meetings)

2002     Proposed syllabus of KOREAN 600 ‘Introduction to KFL pedagogy’. Paper, presented at the 7th AATK 2002 Annual Conference, July 31- August 3, 2002, The Florida State University, U.S.A.

2001     Developing a business Korean course based on a systematic approach. Paper, presented at the 6th AATK 2001 Annual Conference, August 2-5, 2001, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.

2000     Teaching Korean honorifics. Paper, presented at the 5th AATK 2000 Annual Conference, August 4-5, 2000, University of California at Los Angeles, U.S.A.

1999     The Analysis of ‘yo’ the politeness marker in Korean: from language socialization point of view. Paper, presented at the 4th AATK Annual Conference, August 3-4, 1999, the Ohio State University, U.S.A.

 

 

Professional development

2008     The 13th AATK Teachers’ Workshop, SUNY Binghamton, NY, June 27-28.

2007     The 12th AATK Teachers’ Workshop, University of Chicago, IL, June 14-15.

2006     The 11th AATK Teachers’ Workshop, Princeton University, NJ, June 22-23.

2005     The 10th AATK Teachers’ Workshop, Brigham Young University, August, 11-12.

2004     The 9th AATK Teachers’ Workshop, Duke University, NC, June 23-24.

2003     Summer Institute workshop “Korean Corpus Linguistics”, Nation Foreign Language

            Resource Center, the University of Hawaii at Manoa. June 30-July 11.

2003     The 8th AATK Teachers’ Workshop, University of California at Berkeley, June 25-26.

2003     “Discourse Analysis for Teachers of Advanced Level of Korean” workshop at CALIBER (Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research), The Penn State University, June 19-20.

2002     The 7th AATK TBLT Teaching Workshop, The Florida State University, August.

2001     The 6th AATK Web-based Teaching Workshop, The University of Hawaii at Manoa, August.

2001     Korean Pedagogy Workshop: Task-based Language Teaching (by Dr. Michael Long), National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC), The University of Hawaii at Manoa, July 30-August 1.

1999     The 4th AATK KFL Teacher Training Workshop, The Ohio State University, August 4-6.

1999     The 1st Annual KFL Teachers workshop, Korean Culture School of Honolulu, February 3-6.

1998     The 3rd AATK Teacher Training Workshop, Brown University, Providence, RI, July 29-31.

1998     The 11th ICKL (International Conference on Korean Linguistics), The University of Hawaii at Manoa, July 6-9.

1997     The 3rd AATK Teacher Training Workshop, Arizona State University, July 30-August 3.

 

 

Public Recognition

2005                 Nominated and included in the ninth edition of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2005.

 

1999                 Certificate of Commendation (regarding Korean language education). The Consul General (Hawaii) of Republic of Korea (May, 15)

 

 

Grants

2006-2007         College Conference Travel Funds Award, awarded by the College of Arts and Sciences, University at Albany.

 

2003-2004         Faculty Research Awards Program (FRAP) Award, awarded by the University at Albany, SUNY. This grant for approximately $3000.00 is for work on my research project, “Interlanguage Pragmatics studies: apology”.

 

1999-2000         Korea Foundation Graduate Scholarship for Korean Studies. This prestigious grant for $10,000.00 is for graduate studies in Korean linguistics, awarded by Korea Foundation.

 

1998-1999.        Korea Foundation Graduate Scholarship for Korean Studies. This prestigious grant for $10,000.00 is for graduate studies in Korean linguistics, awarded by Korea Foundation.

 

1998                 Center for Korean Studies Graduate Scholarship. This grant for $ 500.00 is for attending academic conference in Korean Studies, awarded by Center for Korean Studies, the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

 

1998                 Pacific Asian Scholarship (PAS).

1997                 Pacific Asian Scholarship (PAS).

 

 

 

TEACHING

Note: 2002-present carried a teaching load of 5 courses per year

 

Course Offered  (*= New Course Developed; †= General Education Course)

 

† EAK101L      Elementary Korean I

† EAK102L      Elementary Korean II

*† EAK170      Korea: Its Culture and Heritage

*† EAK301L    Advanced Korean I

*† EAK302L    Advanced Korean II

*  EAK389       Topics in Korean Literature, History and Culture (Korean sociolinguistics)

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

 

 

Professional Consultantship

 

2008 - Present   Consultant, Center for Foreign Languages Literatures and Cultures (CFLLC),

Williams College, MA.

 

2007- 2012        Consultant (overseeing the Korean language and cultural training of the American scientists), National Science Foundation (NSF) funded- collaborative research project “PIRE: POLYMER Education and Research Partnership between US and Korea.” (Proposal No: 0730243; Awarded amount $500,000 per year, $2.5 million for five years).

 

 

Development of teaching materials projects

2004 -2006        Editor, LangNet project, developing foreign language e-learning system for foreign language learners, The National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) at the University of Maryland.

 

1999-2000         KLEAR textbook project: Developing ‘Intermediate’, ‘Composition’, and ‘Chinese characters learning materials.” (December 1999 - July 2000).

 

1999                 Video production project “Integration of National Standards in a Japanese Language Classroom” funded by the US-Japan Foundation through the Consortium for Teaching Asia and the Pacific in the Schools (CTAPS) at East-West Center, and supported by the National Working Group of the Association of the Teachers of Japanese and the National Council of Japanese Language Teachers (January-May 1999).

 

 

Journal Review

Applied Linguistics,

(Oxford University Press)

Bilingual Research Journal

            (National Association of Bilingual Education)

Foreign Language Annals

(American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages)
Heritage Language Journal

(UCLA Center for World Languages)

Intercultural Pragmatics

(Mouton de Gruyter)

Journal of Korean Language Education 

(International Association of Korean Language Education).

Language, Culture, and Curriculum

(Multilingual Matters)

The Korean Language in America

 (The American Association of Teachers of Korean)

 

 

Book Reviewer for Publisher

Georgetown University Press

Routledge

The University of Hawaii Press

 

 

Referee for Conference

The American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK)

 

 

Advising

2003-Present     East Asian Studies major advisor, East Asian Studies department. University at Albany, SUNY.

 

2002-Present     Faculty advisor, Korean Graduate Student Association (KGSA) of University at Albany.

 

 

Academic Committees

 

2007-Present     Advisory Committee for Center for Language and International Communication (CLIC), University at Albany.

 

2007-Present     Chair, Undergraduate Studies Committee East Asian Studies Dept., University at Albany.

 

2007-2008         Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Philosophy Dept., University at Albany.

 

2006-2007         Search Committee for full-time Chinese language teaching faculty, East Asian Studies Dept., University at Albany.

 

2006-2007         Search Committee for Assistant Professor (Applied Ethics) of Philosophy, Philosophy Dept., University at Albany.

 

2005-2006         Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Philosophy Dept., University at Albany.

 

2004-2006         Faculty Council, University at Albany.

 

2004-2006         Academic Program Committee, University at Albany.

 

2004-2005         Chair, Search Committee for the Korean post-doctoral teaching fellow, East Asian Studies Dept., University at Albany.

 

2003-2004         Chair, Search Committee for the Korean post-doctoral teaching fellow, East Asian Studies Dept., University at Albany.

 

2002-2003         Chair, Search Committee for the Korean post-doctoral teaching fellow, East Asian Studies Dept., University at Albany.

 

 

Professional Services

2006-Present     Executive Board Member, the American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK)

2007-Present     Board Member, the Applied Linguistics Association of Korea (ALAK)

2003-2006         Treasurer, the American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK)

 

 

Professional Affiliations

1997-Present     Life-time member, the American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK).

2003-Present     Life-time Member, International Association for Korean Language Education (IAKLE)

2002-Present     Member, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

2002-Present     Member, Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ).

2003-Present     Member, The Sociolinguistic Society of Korea.

1992-Present     Member, Golden Key Honor Society.

 

 

Other Academic / Community Services

 

2008     Faculty, National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), Union College, Schenectady, NY  (see http://www.smith.edu/fcceas/ncta/states/syllabi/08NYsyllabus-CS.pdf)

 

2008     Review panelist, Critical Language Scholarship Program, Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) (travel expense defrayed by the center), March 5-7, 2008, Washington DC.

 

2008     Reader, Critical Language Scholarship Program, Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC), funded by the U.S. Department of State as part of the National Security Language Initiative.

 

2007     Faculty, National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), Union College, Schenectady, NY (see http://www.smith.edu/fcceas/ncta/states/syllabi/07NYsyllabus-CS.pdf)

 

2006     Planning committee, 2006 The Eleventh Annual Conference and Professional Development Workshop of AATK, Princeton University, NJ, January 2006 –June 2006.

 

2005     Planning committee, 2005 The Tenth Annual Conference and Professional Development Workshop of AATK, Brigham Young University, Utah, October 2004 –July 2005.

 

2004     Planning committee, 2004 The Ninth Annual Conference and Professional Development Workshop of AATK, Duke University, October 2003 –June 2004.

 

2003     Proctor, Doctoral foreign language (Korean) Exam of UAlbany, administered to Ms. Youngin Moon, December 9.

 

Faculty advisor, Korean Film Series, in cooperation with the Korean Graduate Student Association, November 7 - 21 (on UAlbany campus).

 

Proctor, Korean achievement test of Colby College, Waterville, ME, administered to Ms. Julie Carlson, February 10.

 

2002     Simultaneous English-Korean translator, Korean Studies Colloquium Series: “Understanding Korea’s Cultural Heritage” by Prof. Yu Hong-june. The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (February).

 

 

Media Appearances

 

Television interviews

2006     CBS affiliated Channel 6 WRGB, Albany, NY  (October, 9)

NBC affiliated Channel 13 WNYT, Albany, NY (October, 9)

2007     NBC affiliated Channel 13 WNYT, Albany, NY (April, 19)