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Research Interests

Early Childhood and Elementary Education
Literacy and Multiliteracy
Identity and Belonging
​Place and Space
Qualitative Research

Articles

Kim, J., Yu, S., Detrick, R. and Li, N. (2024). Exploring students’ perspectives on Generative AI‑assisted academic writing. Education and Information Technologies , pp. 1-36.

Yu, S. (2024). Visualizing Identity and Belonging: A Mapping Activity. Childhood Education 100 (3) , pp. 58-65.

Cheon, H. and Yu, S. (2023). Unveiling Pre-Service Teachers' Epistemological Beliefs in the Planning of Korean Language Assessment. Korean Language Education Research 58 (5) , pp. 139-172.

Yu, S. (2023). Translanguaging, Multiliteracy, and Sociocultural Dynamics: Exploring Diasporic Identity and Belonging. Journal of Education, Language, and Ideology 1 (2) , pp. 243–267.

Yu, S. and Cheon, H. (2018). Child Reader’s Process of Selecting Picture Books based on Gender: Focused on 2nd Grade Elementary Students.. Korean Language Education Research 53 (5) , pp. 197-218.

Book Chapters

Han, S. Sarah., Yen, Y. and Yu, S. (2024). Learning to Telecollaborate: Collaborative Inquiry Among EFL Secondary Teachers Telecollaboration in Language Teacher Education: Professional Learning, Identities, and Ideologies Bloomsbury Academic.

Umezawa, K., Lyu, S. and Yu, S. Language Ideologies and Reflective Thinking in Multilingual Language Education: Insights from Video-Cued Multivocal Ethnography Qualitative research designs in language teacher education: Methodological challenges and reflexivity narratives.

Yu, S. (2022). Navigating Diversity and Inclusion in Education in Asia. Review of the book Diversity and Inclusion in Global Higher Education: Lessons from across Asia. (pp. 35-38) The Global Studies Literature Review.

Han, S. Sarah., Yu, S. and Yen, Y. (2022). The Becoming of Transcultural Pracademics Doctoral students’ identities and emotional wellbeing in applied linguistics: Autoethnographic accounts Taylor & Francis.

Presentations

Lyu, S. Ryung. and Yu, S. (November , 2024). “Walking-with” Transcending Concrete Horizons Through Racialized Displacement Paper Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (RECE) Chicago, IL.

Yu, S., Gil, M. and Lyu, S. Ryung. (April , 2024). Building a Virtual Community of Practice (VCoP): Empowering Preschool Teachers through Collaborative Action Research for Curriculum Design. Paper The American Education Research Association (AERA) Philadelphia, PA.

Yu, S. (April , 2024). The Interplay of Translanguaging, Multiliteracy, and Sociocultural Dynamics in Shaping Diasporic Identity and Belonging Paper The American Education Research Association (AERA) .

Yu, S. (March , 2024). Exploring Identity and Belonging: A Comparative Study of Immigrant Students in Classroom Contexts in South Korea and the United States Paper Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) Miami, FL.

Yu, S. and Wang, Z. ( 2023). Understanding Student Positioning in a Korean Classroom: An Exploration on a Chinese Language Teacher’s History-in-person Paper American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Portland, OR.

Yu, S. ( 2023). Children’s belonging, otherness, subjectivity, and agency in classrooms: A comparative ethnographic study in South Korea and the United States Paper Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) Washington DC.

Yu, S. ( 2023). Understanding How Experience Spaces Differently in the Classroom through Embodied Multiliteracy Practices Paper Korean American Education Research Institute (KAERA) Chicago, IL.

Yu, S. ( 2023). Special Chairs in the K–4 Elementary Classroom: Immigrant Children’s Be[com]ing through Literacy Practice, Paper Literacy Research Association (LRA) Atlanta, GA.

Yu, S. ( 2023). Rethinking Spaces in the School through Children’s Embodied Multiliteracy Practices Paper Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (RECE) Manchester, UK.

Yeom, E., Park, J., Yu, S. and Ahn, H. ( 2023). Who We were, We are Becoming: Narratives of K-eldest daughters Paper The American Education Research Association (AERA) Chicago, IL.

Han, S. Sarah., Yen, Y. and Yu, S. ( 2022). xploring Intercultural Communication in Distanced Communities of Practices Paper International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence (ICC) Arizona and Online.

Yu, S. ( 2022). Exploring Children's Identity as Expressed in Literacy Practices in Two Different Sites: Classrooms in South Korea and the United States Paper Literacy Research Association (LRA) Phoenix, AZ.

Yu, S. and Wang, Z. ( 2022). Rethinking Literacy Practices from a Vygotskian Perspective: Emotion, Cognition, and Transformation Paper Literacy Research Association (LRA) Phoenix, AZ.

Han, S. Sarah., Yu, S. and Yen, Y. ( 2022). Reimagining through Telecollaboration: Community of Korean and Taiwanese EFL Teachers Paper TESOL International Convention & English Language Expo Pittsburgh, PA.

Gil, M., Yu, S. and Lyu, S. ( 2022). Differences in awareness of multicultural education between early childhood and elementary school teachers from the perspective of continuity Paper The Korean Association for Multicultural Education (KAME) .

• 2024: Dr. Lin A Goodwin and Spencer Foundation Special Metoring Grant Award, The American Education Research Association (AERA), Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans (REAPA)
• 2023: Ethnicity, Race and Multilingualism Award, Literacy Research Association (LRA)
• 2023: Michael Salwen Scholarship , Korean-American Educational Researchers Association (KAERA)
• 2023: Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award , The Pennsylvania State University. The Graduate School and the Office of the Vice President and Dean for Undergraduate Education