YCAR welcomes Young nam Cho as summer visiting scholar


choYCAR welcomes Young nam Cho as a visiting scholar at the Centre this summer.

Professor Cho is an Associate Professor of Japanese language education at Korea University.

Her research encompasses areas such as Discourse Analysis of Japanese and Korean, acquisition research of Japanese as a second language, and Japanese immersion education.

During her visit, she will examine Canadian policies concerning foreign language education with a focus on immersion education programs. The study will focus on the Japanese, Korean and Chinese languages.

Dr. Cho has a MA in Japanese Language Education from Tokyo Gakugei University in Tokyo (1996) and a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Ochanomizu University in Tokyo (1998).

She can be reached at choyn@korea.ac.kr.

We wish her a productive visit!