Bilde av Son, Minjeong
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Bilde av Son, Minjeong
Institutt for lærarutdanning og pedagogikk minjeong.son@uit.no +4777660727 Tromsø You can find me here

Minjeong Son


Job description

Undervisning og forskning innen engelsk, engelsk didaktikk og lingvistikk med fokus på andrespråktilegnelse og lærerutdanning (med fokus på engelskfaget)

Teaching and research within English linguistics and didactics, language pedagogy, teacher education for English, theoretical/applied linguistics with a focus on second language acquisition, multilingualism in the English classroom, & intercultural communicative competence 

2025.8 - 2026.6 (On sabbatical, FoU-termin) 

Project afilliation and Research group:

  • Practice focus (project) (In Norwegian)
  • RITE (Research in teacher education) (research group at ILP, UiT) 
  • TALE (Teaching and Learning in English (research group for English, ILP, UiT)
  • Learning, Assessment and Boundary-Crossing in Teacher Education (LAB-Ted, 2019-2023) funded by the Norwegian Research Council (FINNUT) (led by Prof. Rachel Jakhelin, UiT Norges arktiske universitet with co-principal investigators Prof. May Britt Postholm, NTNU and Prof. Viv Ellis, King's College London). 

  • Annelise Brox, Tove Elinor, Rachel Elise, Minjeong :
    Master thesis as boundary crossing mediating artefacts
    2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Minjeong :
    ConBaT+: Possibilities and challenges in preparing student teachers in English for plurilingual education
    Nordic Journal of Language Teaching and Learning (NJLTL) 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Tove Elinor, Minjeong, Annelise Brox :
    Transforming teacher education for English - contradictions in the activity system hindering a third-space partnership
    Acta Didactica Norden (ADNO) 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Tove Elinor, Minjeong :
    Towards reconceptualising teacher education for English: Benefits and challenges of implementing a third space
    Acta Didactica Norden (ADNO) 2020 DOI / ARKIV
  • Tove Elinor, Minjeong :
    Praksisnær lærerutdanning - et eksempel fra engelskfaget
    FoU i praksis 2017 ARKIV
  • Minjeong :
    Revisiting Resultatives in Korean
    Japanese and Korean Linguistics 15 2009
  • Minjeong :
    Linguistic Variation and Lexical Parameter: The Case of Directed Motion
    The University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 2009
  • Minjeong, Peter :
    An Event-Based Account of -kan constructions in Standard Indonesian (with Peter Cole)
    Language 2008
  • Minjeong :
    Resultatives in Korean Revisited: Complementation versus Adjunction
    Nordlyd 2008 ARKIV
  • Minjeong, Peter :
    Microparameters of Cross-linguistic Variation: Directed motion and Resultatives
    Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 2008
  • Minjeong :
    Verbs of the 'Put-On' Class and Their Peculiarity in Korean
    Japanese and Korean Linguistics 15 2007
  • Minjeong :
    Using proverbs to work with intercultural understanding
    2025
  • Minjeong, Julie Lilanda :
    Intercultural Communicative Competence among English teachers in Norway: Self-assessment and factors influencing the development of ICC
    2025
  • Minjeong, Julie Lilanda :
    Intercultural Education in English classrooms: Perspectives and Practices of Lower-Secondary School Teachers in Norway
    2025
  • Tove Elinor, Bengt Arve Waldemarsen, Minjeong :
    Mikropraksis i lærerutdanninga
    Utdanning 2024
  • Minjeong, Tove Elinor :
    Student teachers' perspectives of micronetwork teaching as part of teacher education in Norway 
    2024
  • Tove Elinor, Minjeong, Bengt :
    Praksisfokus - nye måter å knytte sammen teori og praksis
    2024
  • Ove Gunnar, Tove Elinor, Kristin, Rachel Elise, Annelise Brox, Minjeong :
    Tettere samarbeid mellom universitet og skole
    2024
  • Johansen Julie, Minjeong :
    Intercultural Communicative Competence: Self-assessment, Cognition and Practice among English Teachers in Lower-Secondary Schools in Norway
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2024
  • Tove Elinor, Minjeong :
    Deepening the key concepts in teacher education
    2024
  • Minjeong, Julie Lilanda :
    Intercultural Communicative Competence in English Language Teaching: Cognition and Practice Among Teachers in Lower-Secondary Schools in Norway
    2024
  • Minjeong, Tove Elinor, Annelise Brox :
    Theory-oriented teaching practice under school-university collaboration: Perspectives from student teachers of English
    2023
  • Minjeong, Annelise Brox :
    Theory-practice integration in a reinforced school-university partnership in Norway: Perspectives from student teachers of English
    2023
  • Hanna, Minjeong :
    Qualitative action research on how pupils in a lower secondary school can develop intercultural communicative competence through picturebooks
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 15. mai 2023
  • Minjeong :
    Plurilingual pedagogy: Possibilities and challenges in preparing pre-service teachers in English for plurilingual education
    2023
  • Anniken, Vebjørn Holen, Minjeong :
    Intercultural competence within the English subject. Qualitative action research on how teachers in a lower secondary school can teach intercultural competence focusing on stereotypes and prejudice.
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2022
  • Minjeong, Tine, Katrine :
    Developing pupils’ oral confidence in the English classroom: A qualitative and quantitative study on pupils’ anxiety, nervosity and insecurities in relation to oral activity in the second language classroom
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2022
  • Tove Elinor, Annelise Brox, Minjeong :
    Inner contradictions and tensions in creating a third space in teacher education for English in Norway
    2022
  • Tove Elinor, Minjeong :
    Enhancing theory-practice integration in teacher education for English through a third space
    2021
  • Minjeong :
    Reportasje om studentaktiv læring i partnerskapet ved UiT, presentert på konferansen om partnerskap i lærerutdanningene: Hvis partnerskap er svaret – hva er spørsmålet? https://nettsteder.regjeringen.no/frlu/konferanse-om-partnerskap-i-laererutdanningene-hvis-partnerskap-er-svaret-hva-er-sporsmalet/
    21. avril 2021
  • Minjeong, Marit :
    Subject-verb agreement in written English by L1 Norwegian university students: Error patterns, causes, and implication for teaching
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 02. novembre 2020
  • Minjeong, Tove Elinor :
    Improving theory and practice integration in teacher education: An example from the subject of English
    2017
  • Stine, Minjeong :
    Teaching English in introduction classes. A case study of challenges and facilitating factors for teachers who teach English in introduction classes
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 11. mai 2016
  • Minjeong, Ingrid :
    Teachers’ Knowledge and Classroom Practices of Pronunciation in Lower Secondary School in Norway
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 18. mai 2016
  • Minjeong, Ida-Mari :
    Using pre-speaking activities to increase pupils’ oral confidence in English
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 15. mai 2015
  • Peter, Minjeong :
    Measurement and Paths in Indonesian and English
    2010
  • Peter, Minjeong :
    Directed Manner of Motion in Verb Serialization: A comparative study of Indonesian/Malay and Tetun Dili
    2009
  • Minjeong, Peter :
    Measurement and Path
    2009
  • Minjeong :
    Resultatives in Korean Revisited: Adjunction versus Complementation
    2009
  • Minjeong :
    Directed Manner of Motion in Verb Serialization: A Comparative Study of Indonesian/Malay and Tetun Dili
    2009
  • Minjeong :
    Two ways to Express Directed Motion in Indonesian/Malay and Different Event Construals
    2009
  • Peter, Minjeong :
    Microparameters of Cross-linguistic variation: Directed Motion and Resultatives
    2008
  • Peter, Minjeong :
    Directed Motion Expressions in Malay/Indonesian with reference to Javanese and Balinese
    2008
  • Minjeong :
    (with Peter Svenonius) Directed Motion Expressions in Malay/Indonesian with reference to Javanese and Balinese
    2008
  • Minjeong :
    The Typology of Directed Motion from A Micro-Parametric Perspective
    2008
  • Minjeong :
    Cross-Linguistics Variation in Resultatives: With Reference to Korean and English
    2008
  • Minjeong :
    Resultatives in Korean and English Revisited from a Micro-Parametric Perspective
    2008
  • Minjeong :
    (With Peter Svenonius) Microparameters of Cross-Linguistic Variation: Directed Motion and Resultatives
    2008
  • Minjeong :
    Linguistic Variation and Lexical Parameters: The Case of Directed Motion
    2008
  • Minjeong :
    Decomposing Denominal Location Verbs: Morpho-syntactic Evidence from Indonesian
    2007

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    Research interests

    English education, second language acquisition, teacher education in school-university partnerships, intercultural communicaitve competence, multi/plurilingual approach to English teaching, theoretical linguistics (syntax, semantics, language variation in the mapping of syntax and semantics)

     

     

    Teaching

    • Masteremne i engelsk didaktikk: Språklæring, flerespråklighet og didaktikk
    • Engelsk fordypning (5-10):  Språklig og kulturelt mangfold i den engelskspråklige verden
    • Engelsk 5-10 og 1-7: Språkkunnskap og didaktikk 
    • Språk læring og kommunikasjon (Engelsk) for engelsklærere (trinn 5-10), Tromsø
    • Påbygging Engelsk 1.- 7. trinn og Engelsk 5. - 10. trinn for masterstudenter i lærerutdanning (ILP)
    • Engelsk 1 (trinn 1-7), etter- og videreutdanning for engelsk lærere, Alta campus (2016-2017) 
    • Engelskdidaktikk 1 og 2 (GLU-1406/7) og  Språk (fonetikk, GLU-1400), Alta campus  (2015-2017)
    • Language diversity and typology (IKS, UiT) (Fall 2011)
    • The origin and evolution of language (IKS, UiT) (Spring 2011, 2012) 
    • Introduction to Linguistics (taught at the University of Delaware, USA) (2001-2003) 
    • Veiledning i FoU-oppgave og master oppgave (ILP)

    In English:

    • Master course in English didactics: Language learning, multilingualism and didactics 
    • English fordypning (in-depth course): Linguistics and cultural diversity in the English speaking world
    • Language learning,communication, and didactics for integrated master program of teacher education (trinn 5-10 and 1-7)
    • English 1 for in-service English teachers (Continuing education) (both 1-7 and 5-10), Tromsø/Alta
    • English didactics 1 and 2 and Phonetics, Alta campus (2015-2017)
    • Language diversity and typology (IKS, UiT) (Fall 2011) 
    • The origin and evolution of language (IKS, UiT) (Spring 2011, 2012) 
    • Introduction to Linguistics (taught at the University of Delaware, USA)
    • Supervision in bachelor and master thesis 

     

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