Jin Sook Lee

Bio

Jin Sook Lee is currently a Professor of Education and Associate Dean in the Graduate Division at the University of California, Santa Barbara with faculty affiliations in the Departments of Linguistics and Asian American Studies. She earned her doctorate from Stanford University and is a former Fulbright Scholar in Applied Linguistics. Her research, which has been supported by various organizations such as the National Science Foundation, Foundation for Child Development, and National Institute of Health, focuses on the sociocultural factors that shape the language learning and teaching processes among heritage language learners, English language learners, and bilingual learners in immigrant communities, community-based programs, and dual language immersion schools. Her book publications include The Education of Language Minority Immigrants in the US (Multilingual Matters, 2009) and Feeling it: Language, Race and Affect in Latinx Youth Learning (Routledge, 2018). She is also the associate editor for the International Journal of Multilingual Research and serves on the editorial boards of Bilingual Research Journal, Language Arts, Asia TEFL, Korean Language in America, and Language Teaching for Young Learners.

Research

Bilingualism; Heritage language maintenance; ESL; Second/foreign language acquisition and education; Multicultural education.