Current Teaching:

KOREAN 111: Korean for Beginners 2

KOREAN 201: Intermediate Korean 2

KOREAN 300: Advanced Korean 1


Postgraduate Supervision:

I am happy to discuss topics of supervision in language and identity, heritage language maintenance, and Korean language pedagogy.

Current Doctoral Students

External 

2026 Helena Weyland (Multilingualism and Social Inclusion), co-supervisor (with Professor Tobias Schroedler (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Multilingual participation in the labour market: Use and value of heritage languages in the workplace

Internal 

2026 – Xuan Huang (Applied Linguistics)  

Language practices and ideologies of Fuzhou immigrants in New Zealand: An ecological approach 
(China Scholarship Council Scholarship)

2025 – Alfi Syahriyani (Asian Language and Cultures), main supervisor 
Family language policy and heritage language maintenance of Banten-dialect Javanese families
(The Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education Scholarship, The Indonesian Ministry of Finance)

2025 – Runhan Li (Asian Languages and Cultures), co-supervisor (with Dr. Karen Huang)

Multilingual identity negotiation among Chinese international PhD students in English-speaking countries:

The role of dialects, Mandarin, and English

2024 – Ting Hu (Applied Linguistics), main supervisor
Multilingualism and identity development of mixed-heritage adolescents in South Korea
(China Scholarship Council Scholarship)

2023 – Thy Nguyen Thao Le (Applied Linguistics), main supervisor
Multilingual identity constructions of ethnic students learning English as a foreign language in Vietnam
(Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training Project Scholarship)

2023 – Phebe Ha (Applied Linguistics), main supervisor
Multilingual families in New Zealand: How parents�� and children’s language ideologies affect their individual agency in negotiating a family language policy

2022 – Yujun Wu (Applied Linguistics), main supervisor
Family language policy, multilingualism, and mixed-heritage children’s identity in New Zealand

2021 – Justine Sochacka (Applied Linguistics), co-supervisor (with Associate Professor, Louisa Buckingham).
Political-cultural identities, long-distance nationalism and heritage language maintenance: New Zealand's Polish diaspora


Completed Supervisions

2020 – 2026 Ja Yung Kim (Asian Studies), co-supervisor (with Professor Mark Mullins). 
Capturing the language revitalization movement in Okinawa
(awaiting oral exam)

2021 – 2024 Bayan Shamma (Applied Linguistics), co-supervisor (with Associate Professor Louisa Buckingham).
Family language policy in transnational Muslim non-Arab families in New Zealand in relation to the Arabic language

2019 – 2023 Kethakie Nagahawatte (Applied Linguistics), co-supervisor (with Professor Gary Barkhuizen)
English, self-fashioning, and identity: A critical narrative inquiry of the role of English in the lives of social science and humanities graduates in Sri Lanka

2018 – 2023 Naning Wahyuni (Applied Linguistics), co-supervisor (with Associate Prof. Tan Bee Tin).
Investigating primary school students’ development of interest in English language learning: Classroom-related and parental involvement