Peter Byun
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Associate Professor
EdD in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
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
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2001
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.
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2000
M.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
Major: Linguistics
Major: Linguistics
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1997
M.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000
Major: Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL)
Major: Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL)
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1983
B.A. Seoul National University, 1991
Major: English Education (TESL)
Major: English Education (TESL)
Honors
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2009
Honorary Ambassador for Pai Chai University, Korea, 2009-Present
Publications
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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.
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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
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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: Libraries Unlimited.
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2013
Byun, J. (2013). The analysis of conversation topics in a tutoring context. Journal of the Korea English Education Society, 12(3), 91-100
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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.
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2013
Byun, J., & Kim, J. (2013). Homestay: What factors contribute to second language learning? English 21, 26(1), 267-291.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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2003
Byun, J. (2003). Syntactic changes of Korean through Englishization. Harvard Studies In Korean Linguistics, X.319-330.
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2001
Byun, J. (2001). Some idiosyncratic characteristics of Korean personal pronouns. Harvard Studies In Korean Linguistics, IX, 265-274.