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Beyond Grammar: Integrating Diversity and Inclusion in Korean Language Classrooms (106043)
Session Chair: Yoon Hwa Choi
This presentation will be live-streamed via Zoom (Online Access)
Monday, 20 April 2026 20:05
Session: Session 1
Room: Live-Stream Room 2
Presentation Type: Live-Stream Presentation
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Language classrooms have the potential to become powerful spaces for cultivating empathy, critical awareness, and global citizenship. Yet Korean language curricula often remain anchored in standardized representations of culture, privileging dominant narratives of nation, gender, family, and social identity. This presentation explores how diversity and inclusion can be meaningfully integrated into Korean language instruction without sacrificing linguistic rigor or overwhelming curricular demands.
Drawing on classroom reflections, sample lesson designs, and student feedback from beginning and intermediate Korean courses, the presentation demonstrates practical strategies for expanding beyond textbook centered views of Korean culture. These strategies include incorporating diverse representations of Korean society such as multicultural families, regional and class differences, migration, disability, and generational voices; validating students’ linguistic and cultural repertoires; and creating space for critical yet appropriate discussions in the target language. Special attention is given to assessment practices, scaffolding techniques, and the role of teacher stance in building safe, respectful, and participatory classrooms.
By reframing diversity not as an extra topic but as an organizing principle for language learning, the session argues that Korean language education can better support students in seeing themselves and others as legitimate participants in multilingual, multicultural communities. Ultimately, this presentation offers concrete models for educators seeking to align Korean language teaching with broader goals of humanistic education, intercultural understanding, and peace oriented global citizenship.
Authors:
Yoon Hwa Choi, University of Virginia, United States
About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Yoon Hwa Choi is currently an Associate Professor of Korean and Director of the Korean Language Program at the University of Virginia.
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