Youngsun Moon, M.A.
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Education specializing in Human Development in Context (HDiC). Before pursuing my Ph.D., I received my B.A. and M.A. from Korean University and taught as a middle school English teacher.
My main research goal is to identify the necessary skills for reading and writing and how these skills interact and support students’ literacy development. I have been exploring potential foundational skills and indicators of future reading and writing proficiency for diverse groups of students from diverse language backgrounds. I am also interested in language assessment and psychometrics and engaged in learning advanced statistical methods that allow me to answer more nuanced research questions.
Research Interests
Literacy Education
Reading and Writing Development
Spelling Development
Spelling Scoring Methods
Bilingual Education
Quantitative Methods
Selected Research Projects
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Exploring Alternative Methods of Scoring Spelling
- Using more nuanced scoring methods for spelling
- Revealing nuanced relations and informing instruction
- Website Development for Scoring Spelling (link: Spelling Dystance)
Improving Secondary Students’ Writing in History
- IES funded intervention study (RCT)
- Collected 2,000+ students’ writing and demographic data across two years
- Exclusive access to design insights.
Korean-English Bilingual Populations
- Understanding literacy development of Korean-English bilingual children
- Spelling error analysis of Korean and English spelling of children
- Task-Based Learning for Adult Korean Heritage Speakers
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