Dr Gigi Choi (she/her)

School of East Asian Studies

Teaching Associate in Korean Language

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gigi.choi@sheffield.ac.uk

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Dr Gigi Choi
School of East Asian Studies
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
91直播
S3 7RA
Profile

Dr Gigi Choi joined SEAS in 2023. She has ten years’ experience of teaching Korean in higher education settings, and has previously taught at universities in Seoul, Rome, and the UK. She  gained her doctorate in Korean Language Education from Hanyang University, Seoul, in 2020.

Qualifications

PhD in Korean Language Education, Hanyang University, Seoul

MA in Korean Language Education, Hanyang University, Seoul,

BA in Education & Korean Education, Hanyang University, Seoul

Research interests

Her thesis examined cultural education through translation, and she maintains research interests in this area. She also has experience and interests in teacher training and the promotion of Korean language learning outside Korea. 

Teaching interests

She believes that every language class is an opportunity for intercultural exchange. In teaching Korean, she is helping students to discover what is unique about Korean culture and inviting them to interpret it in relation to their own cultures. With this in mind, she tries to ensure that the content of her classes is topical and up to date. She also takes an evidence-based approach to teaching, planning her lessons in the first instance in response to students’ demonstrable needs and interests, but also with reference to contemporary research into language learning pedagogy. While she values communicative approaches, she also thinks it is essential to equip students with enough language knowledge and awareness to optimize such approaches. She is very conscious that every learner is different, and therefore seeks to offer differentiated support throughout her classes. Overall, she hopes that her classes are occasions for discovery and reflection, helping students to develop the confidence, competence, and curiosity needed to thrive in a Korean-language environment.  

Publications

‘Teaching travel literature through intertextuality within Yeonhaengrok: critical responses to <Yeolha Ilgi(熱河日記)> in later Yeonhaengrok’, The Society of Korean Classical Literature Education No49, 2022. (Cowriters: Mihwa Sun, Jee-sun Lee)

‘The Role of SF Animation in Posthuman Education: A Study of the movie <WALL-E>’, Korean Society of Cartoon and Animation Studies No53, 2018. (Cowriters: Yoo-shin Park, Mira Jo)

Esercizi di lingua coreana, Aracne, Oen Joung Kim, Jiji Choi ISBN 978-88-548-9185-2, 2016

‘Translating Culture: Alterations in H. N. Allen’s English version of Tokkijeon’, The Society of Korean Language and Literature No.180, 2017.