Soon Young Jang

Soon Young Jang is an Assistant Professor in the Early Childhood Studies Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She obtained her Ph.D. in Language and Literacies Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her primary research interests include children’s bilingualism and biliteracy, heritage language learning, translanguaging, and language policy and practice. She has published in international peer-reviewed journals such as Language and Education, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Journal of Early Childhood Research, McGill Journal of Education, and Early Years.

Publications

Empowering Students: Decentering the English Monolingual Norm Through Discourse
Empowering Students: Decentering the English Monolingual Norm Through Discourse
Soon Young Jang, Giselle Navarro-Cruz, Denise Kennedy, Kheng Ly-Hoang. © 2023. 20 pages.
This chapter showcases how faculty in the early childhood studies department in one of the most linguistically and culturally diverse states in the United States create discourse...