@article{ART003282815},
author={Hee Chung Chun},
title={Enhancing Korean heritage learners’ language awareness and understanding of diaspora through linguistic landscape projects},
journal={The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea},
issn={1226-4822},
year={2025},
volume={33},
number={4},
pages={213-241}
TY - JOUR
AU - Hee Chung Chun
TI - Enhancing Korean heritage learners’ language awareness and understanding of diaspora through linguistic landscape projects
JO - The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea
PY - 2025
VL - 33
IS - 4
PB - The Sociolinguistic Society Of Korea
SP - 213
EP - 241
SN - 1226-4822
AB - This paper examines the pedagogical application of Linguistic Landscape in Korean as a Heritage Language (KHL) education. Although previous research affirms that the linguistic landscape enhances learners’ awareness of real-world language use, promotes cultural understanding, and motivates learners through authentic engagement with the target language in their local community, it remains underutilized in the Korean language classrooms. Adopting a project-based learning (PBL) approach, this paper presents a linguistic landscape project conducted by Korean heritage learners in a KHL class at a state university in the United States and discusses how the project fostered their language awareness and understanding of the Korean diaspora. The paper outlines how the project was implemented, examines learners’ observations of the linguistic landscape in the local Koreatown, and analyzes their self-reflections. The results suggest that learners recognize translanguaging between Korean and English, understand the distinct functions of each language, and identify the marketing strategies informing language choices. The project also encouraged learners to reflect on their own identities as Korean Americans, their local Korean American communities, and, more broadly, the Korean diaspora in the United States.
KW - Korean as a Heritage Language (KHL);language landscape;project-based learning;language awareness;diaspora
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Hee Chung Chun. (2025). Enhancing Korean heritage learners’ language awareness and understanding of diaspora through linguistic landscape projects. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea, 33(4), 213-241.
Hee Chung Chun. 2025, "Enhancing Korean heritage learners’ language awareness and understanding of diaspora through linguistic landscape projects", The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea, vol.33, no.4 pp.213-241.
Hee Chung Chun "Enhancing Korean heritage learners’ language awareness and understanding of diaspora through linguistic landscape projects" The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 33.4 pp.213-241 (2025) : 213.
Hee Chung Chun. Enhancing Korean heritage learners’ language awareness and understanding of diaspora through linguistic landscape projects. 2025; 33(4), 213-241.
Hee Chung Chun. "Enhancing Korean heritage learners’ language awareness and understanding of diaspora through linguistic landscape projects" The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 33, no.4 (2025) : 213-241.
Hee Chung Chun. Enhancing Korean heritage learners’ language awareness and understanding of diaspora through linguistic landscape projects. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea, 33(4), 213-241.
Hee Chung Chun. Enhancing Korean heritage learners’ language awareness and understanding of diaspora through linguistic landscape projects. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea. 2025; 33(4) 213-241.
Hee Chung Chun. Enhancing Korean heritage learners’ language awareness and understanding of diaspora through linguistic landscape projects. 2025; 33(4), 213-241.
Hee Chung Chun. "Enhancing Korean heritage learners’ language awareness and understanding of diaspora through linguistic landscape projects" The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 33, no.4 (2025) : 213-241.
