Sunah Chung, PhD
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Assistant Professor, Literacy Education
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Sunah Chung, PhD
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Assistant Professor, Literacy Education
My research focuses on children's literacy learning through reading children's literature. With the experience in teaching adolescents in South Korea, I am also interested in English language learners' reading children's literature, especially informational picturebooks and biography, to enhance their language and disciplinary knowledge. Through my research, I seek to make children's literature more equitable and inclusive and to create learning spaces to develop disciplinary knowledge and literacy.
PhD, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois at Chicago
B.A, English Language Education, Chung-Ang University
Reading assessment
Children's and young adult literature
Teaching methods of early literacy
Children's literature
Informational picture books
Biography
Literacy development
Meacham, S., Chung, S. & Wee, J. (2024) Chinese picturebooks at the local libraries 30 years later: Focusing on folktales. Curriculum & Teaching Dialogue, 26(1&2), 97-111.
Marsho, T., Riley, A., Rudd, D., Schmidt, M., Chung, S., & Montgomery, S. E. (2024). Promoting Student Activism Through Children's Literature and Social Justice Art. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 37(2), 5-10.
Chung, S. (2024) A parent’s multimodal support to bilingual child’s reading: A case study of Korean immigrant family. Journal of Language, Identity & Education. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2024.2409333.
Lee, S., Griffith, A. N., Sánchez, B., Jiang, X., Leggett, C., Bilal, N. J. N., & Chung, S. (2024). “He knows me as a person”: Navigating cultural dynamics in relational pathways towards positive youth-adult relationships in youth programs. Journal of Adolescent Research. Advance online publication.
Chung, S., Paciga, K. A., & Koss, M. D. (2024). Acclaimed children's literature as global resources. International Journal on Social and Education Sciences (IJonSES), 6(4), 481-502. https://doi.org/10.46328/ijonses.679
Alteri, S. Chung, S.*, & Zuk, R. (2024). “When a book makes you cry”: Public responses to stories of the carceral child in Indigenous picture books. American Behavioral Scientist.https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642241268580 *Corresponding author: sunah.chung@uni.edu Authors are listed in alphabetical order
Chung, S. (2024) Children’s reading of visuals in informational picturebooks and biographies. International Journal on Social and Education Sciences (IJonSES), 6(3), 409-426. https://doi.org/10.46328/ijonses.678
Chung, S., Wee, J., & Meacham, S. (2024) Peritextual Elements in Chinese Nonfiction Picturebooks. Children’s Literature in English Language Education, 12(1), 25-48. https://clelejournal.org/
Chung, S. & Chaudhri, A. (2021). Biographies of Women in the Robert Sibert Award: A Critical Content Analysis. Journal of Children's Literature, 47(1)
Chung, S. (2019). Baring teeth or bearing teeth?: Stereotypical visual representations in informational picturebooks. New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship, 25(1-2), 33-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614541.2020.1774268
Chung, S. (2019). Review of the book Figuring Korean Futures: Children's Literature in Modern Korea by Dafna Zur. The Lion and the Unicorn, 43(3), 430-433. https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2019.0037
Chung, S. (2019). The diversity of protagonists in ILA Choices. The Dragon Lode, 38 (1), 46-52.
Chung, S., & Choi, Y. (2013). Does same-sex preference make 3-4-year-olds more gullible? The Korean Journal of Developmental Psychology, 26 (4), 93-105.