Judy Yin

Judy Yin - Featured Speaker @ KOTESOL 2023

  Featured Session

Collaborative Teaching and Learning in TEFL

Collaboration, in any shape or form, is valuable in all contexts, including educational settings. As there are increasing demands for teachers and students to keep up with advancements in technology as well as constant changes in educational policies, collaboration seems all the more essential. Furthermore, the traditional concept of collaboration as merely working together has now been extended to strategic collaboration such as that used in cohort-based learning. It is, then, crucial to identify and discuss the types of collaboration that we can find in the English classroom focusing on what has been done and what possibilities we can consider in the Korean EFL context. As such, this presentation will focus on the various types of collaboration that form an intricate network of sharing and cooperating in the English classroom, starting with the perspective of teaching-as-coaching as a way to describe how teachers and students should work together in the classroom. Also, by means of action research in collaboration with teachers and researchers, I will discuss how professional development that is more aligned with the needs of the teachers can be provided. Finally, I will provide some examples of how teachers and students can collaborate with machine translation to enhance foreign language learning in the Korean EFL classroom.

  Invited Second Session

Using Drawings and Metaphors to Explore Teacher Identity

Knowing oneself is, undoubtedly, a crucial element in ways one interprets the nature of one’s work. In the field of teacher education and professional development, “teacher identity” has been considered as an important factor that affects how teachers make decisions in and make meaning of their profession. Teacher training and professional development should provide ways for teachers to explore their identities to address issues that tend to strengthen or hinder their teaching practice in the classroom. In order to empower teachers, this workshop will focus on how we perceive ourselves as foreign language teachers by expressing our perspectives through drawings and metaphors. 

  Biosketch

Judy Yin taught secondary English at the American School of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, in Spain for three years before pursuing her academic studies in TEFL. She received her MA and PhD in English education at Seoul National University and is currently a professor of English education at the Korea National University of Education in South Korea. She teaches undergraduate courses in second language writing and speaking and graduate courses in exploring theories and methodologies of teaching the productive skills in EFL classrooms in Korea. Her research interests include collaborative teaching and learning, reflective practice, and teacher professional development. Serving as the general secretary for Asia TEFL and KEES (Korea English Education Society) and the program chair for the SIG (special interest group) workshop at KATE (Korea Association of Teachers of English), she actively participates in various TEFL conferences and workshops. 

Select Sites
Judy Yin Interview for The English Connection (March 2023; PDF)
e-Articles: Judy Yin
LinkedIn: Judy Yin 

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