Curriculum Vitae
Yoo Ree Chung

Education

Certificate

  • Korean language instructor.  72-hour training completed at the Institute for Training Korean Language Instructors, the Institute of Language Research Education, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, August 2001.

Awards/Fellowship

  • Grannis Award, Department of English, Iowa State University, 2006.
  • DEIL Block Graduate Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005-2006.

Teaching Experience

  • ENGL 099L. English for Native Speakers of Other Languages, Strategies for Listening, Fall 200.
  • ENGL 099R. English for Native Speakers of Other Languages, Strategies for Reading, Fall 2006.
  • College reading part-time instructor at Yonsei University, Wonju Campus, Wonju, South Korea, Spring 2003.
  • EFL teacher for Korean children. Working as a part-time language tutor, Sisa YBM, Seoul, South Korea, August 2002 - February 2003.

Publications

Manuscripts Submitted for Review

  • Chapelle, C. A., Chung, Y.-R., Hegelheimer, V., Pendar, N., & Xu, J. Designing a computer-delivered language performance test: A pilot study. Language Testing.
  • Chapelle, C. A., &Chung, Y.-R. (2010). The promise of NLP and speech recognition and processing technologies in language assessment. Language Testing.

Presentations

Research

  • Multimedia-integrated computer-mediated communication, Spring 2007- Present.
  • Development of a grammar test as a written proficiency indicator, with Prof. Carol A. Chapelle, Prof. Volker Hegelheimer, Prof. Nick Pendar, and Jing Xu (Spring 2007-Spring 2008)
  • Revision of the ISU English Placement Test (EPT), with Prof. Volker Hegelheimer and Prof. Dan Douglas (Fall 2006-spring 2007)

Projects & Work Experience

  • Research and Administrative assistant for ISU English Placement Test, Fall 2006 – present.
  • Data analyst for Drake Spanish Test Development Project, Winter 2007-Spring 2008.
  • Assistant web designer, EPT Database, Fall 2007.
  • Assistant editor of Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on Technology for Second Language Learning (TSLL), Fall 2007-Spring 2008.
  • Assistant web designer, Iowa State University TESL/ALT Alumni Database, Fall 2007.
  • Assistant coordinator, the Fifth Annual conference on Technology for Second Language Learning (TSLL), Fall 2007.
  • Departmental librarian, Division of English as an International Language (DEIL), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2004 – Spring 2005.
  • Research assistant for the development of an EFL program for children, Yonsei Language Program (ELP), January 2002 – August 2002.
  • Research assistant for a Korean-English spoken corpus development project sponsored by the Korean Government, January 2002 – May 2002.
  • Teaching and graduate assistant, Department of English, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, Fall 1999 – Fall 2001.

Research Interests

  • Second language assessment
  • Second language acquisition
  • Computer-assisted language learning