About

I am a Ph.D. student in Education at the University of California, Irvine, advised by Dr. Mark Warschauer and Dr. Penelope Collins. My research agenda investigates how generative AI shapes multilingual learners’ access to and participation in their desired discourse communities.

I explore this broader question in two contexts. First, I study how multilingual learners interact with generative AI during authentic writing processes. Using process-tracing methods, I examine moment-to-moment interactions among writers, AI, texts, and other digital tools to understand how generative AI is reshaping writing practices.

Second, I investigate how generative AI reshapes collaborative classroom interaction. Using conversation analysis and screen recording, I examine how the introduction of AI reorganizes moment-to-moment interaction and cooperative action in group discussions, and how these changes shape multilingual learners’ access to and participation in classroom discourse.

I extend this line of inquiry by rethinking learner–technology relationships through sociomaterial and postdigital perspectives and by developing methodological approaches that attend to the complex and entangled nature of these relationships. As digital spaces become important sites of learning, I develop ecologically valid methods for collecting qualitative process data within these environments, including SNUWET, a webcam-based eye-tracking tool for tracing learners’ moment-to-moment visual attention and activity across digital environments.

Before joining UCI, I earned an M.A. in English Language Education from Seoul National University and a B.A. in English Language Education from Korea University.

Research Interests

Generative AI and multilingual writing · L2 academic writing · Writing processes · Digital literacies · AI literacy · Multimodal and qualitative research