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Peter Byun

peter byun

Peter Byun |
Associate Professor

California School of Education
EdD in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
San Diego
peter.byun@alliant.edu
Personal Interests
He is interested in spending time with his family, going to church, taking a walk, and fishing,
Professional Interests
His research interests include input, interaction, output, and automaticity in SLA, and the development of TESOL/TEFL programs.
Bio

Dr. Jin-Suk Byun graduated with a Ph.D. in Linguistics with a focus on second language acquisition (SLA) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after he received his two MA's in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) and in linguistics from the same university. He taught various groups of English Language Learners and Korean language learners as well as TESOL master and doctoral students. He also worked as an ESOL coordinator in a preservice teacher education program and developed various TESL/TEFL certificate and master programs. His research interests include input, interaction, output, and automaticity in SLA, and the development of TESOL/TEFL programs.

Education
Ph. D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 2006 Major: Linguistics, Specialty: Second Language Acquisition. Dissertation: The effect of output practice on the automatization of Korean Morphosynatctic rules. Chair: James Yoon.
M.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
Major: Linguistics
M.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000
Major: Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL)
B.A. Seoul National University, 1991
Major: English Education (TESL)
Honors
Honorary Ambassador for Pai Chai University, Korea, 2009-Present
Publications
Date

2017

Byun, J. (2017). The effect of the PBS documentary The New Americans on the TESOL
training of preservice teachers. International Journal of TESOL and Learning, 6. 1-17.
Date

2013

Byun, J. (2013). The analysis of conversation topics in a tutoring context. Journal of the
Korea English Education Society, 12(3), 91-100
Date

2013

Byun, J., & Cho, Y. (2013). Evaluation of VanPatten's input processing theory as a
Theory of instructed second language acquisition. The Journal of Korea
Knowledge Information Technology Society, 8(1), 95-106.
Date

2013

Byun, J., & Kim, J. (2013). Homestay: What factors contribute to second language
learning? English 21, 26(1), 267-291.
Date

2011

Byun, J., & Kim, J. (2011). Designing a teaching method of blended English language
instructions using web 2.0 technologies. The Journal of Korea Knowledge
Information Technology Society, 6(6), 121-126.
Date

2011

Byun, J. (2011). Power law of practice in SLA through computer technology. The Journal of Korea Knowledge Information Technology Society, 6(5), 1-8.
Date

2010

Byun, J. (2010). The forgotten roles and new roles of output in Second Language Acquisition. The Journal of Korea Knowledge Information Technology Society, 5(6), 51-64.
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2009

Byun, J. (2009). Skill-specificity in the acquisition of automaticity in L2. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 17(3), 57-78.
Date

2007

Byun, J. (2007). Processing Instruction and Skill-specificity: In which direction should they go? The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 15(1). 15-35
Date

2003

Byun, J. (2003). Syntactic changes of Korean through Englishization. Harvard Studies In
Korean Linguistics, X.319-330.
Date

2001

Byun, J. (2001). Some idiosyncratic characteristics of Korean personal pronouns.
Harvard Studies In Korean Linguistics, IX, 265-274.
Date

2017

Perren, J., Kelch, K., Byun, J., Cervantes, S., & Seterah, S. (Eds.). (2017). Applications of CALL Theory in ESL and EFL Environments, Hershey, PA: IGI Publishers
Date

2015

Byun, J. & Cavanaugh, T. (2015). Ebooks and ESL/ELL students. In Terence
Cavanaugh's eBooks for Elementary School (pp. 177-186). Santa Barbara, CA:
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