Welcome to the Home Page for Dongil "Jacob" Shin (신동일)

 

Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Literature (영어영문학과) at the Chung-Ang University (중앙대학교), Seoul, Korea. You can e-mail me at shin@cau.ac.kr, call at 02-820-5098 (my office), 02-820-5095 (department office).

 

The Books recently published  

        

• 버티는 힘, 언어의 힘. (2024, 필로소픽) [Sustained by Language. Seoul: Phiosophik.]
• 미학적 삶을 위한 언어감수성 수업. (2023, 필로소픽) [Language Awareness and Aesthetic Life. Seoul: Philosophik.]
• 담론의 이해: 담화, 담론적 전환, 비판적 담론연구. (2022, 책세상) [Discourse, Discursive Turn, Critical Discourse Studies. Seoul: Chaeksesang]
• 앵무새 살리기: 더 좋은 언어사회를 희망하며. (2020, 박이정) [To Save a Mockingbird. Seoul: Pagijong Press.]

 

My Records and Stories

• My C.V. (including my contact information and a list of scholarly works)
• The Books I (will) Have Written
• What I Do, Where I Stand (in Korean)
• My Stories, Old Records (written around 2009-2010) (in Korean)

 

Links where I develop my research ideas

• Newspaper Columns I have written (in Korean)
• Facebook Timeline  (my life & views)
• Twitter 1 (my research notes in English) Twitter 2 (Quiet Time, faith life)
• Brunch (my writing process and rough drafts)
• Jacob Academy's Homepage (for my e-books), Jacob Academy's Facebook Page

• (stopped for now) Podcasts Broadcasted ('언새우' Research Group Podcast)
• (planning) Youtube, Reels 
• Memoir (2002-2013) (finally all the posts deleted in 2021: "Dear Past, thank you for the great moments. I now become a better person and owe it to you. I think it's time to say goodbye to you, move forward, and live for the present."
  

I as a researcher take a big step forward in challenging taken-for-granted neoliberal and monolingual theories, practices, and pedagogies in where we use and educate languages. Researching language and society mostly in Korean contexts, I have explored the emerging movements (narrative, critical, discursive, multilingual, cultural turns) to see (critical) applied linguistics in a new light. My publications cover a range of interconnected topics and research methodologies:

 

(1) (critical) language testing (test development, validation, high-stakes policies, sociopolitics of testing), (2) (critical) discourse analysis, conversation analysis, (3) language governmentality, linguistic entrepreneurship, language ideologies and subjectivities. (4) language use and social identities, (5) critical language awareness, critical literacy, language rights, linguicism (linguistic discrimination), (6) languges in the global marketplace (e.g., issues of McCommunication, verbal hygiene), multi-/plural turns in the regimes of language, from monolingualism to lingua franca, translingual, metrolingual, ecological practice, (7) language in the media, (social) semiotics and cultural studies, (8) storytelling and narrative studies (spoken and story grammar, pedagogy and assessment in story-telling, narrative inquries).

 

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