Dr Seongsook Choi

Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Areas of interest for supervision

I welcome expressions of interest from potential research students in the following areas:

interdisciplinarity in HE, interdisciplinary learning and teaching, interdisciplinary research engagement; 

spoken interactional context and the development of spoken discourse analytic tools.

 

Current PhD students supervised

Beatrice Clegg: “Maybe we can have a try”: Chinese English hedging devices and native English teacher attitudes in the university context.

Ibtisam Alrushaidi  

Keqi Li

Xueqi Chen

Yin Chen

Past PhD students supervised

Ana Isabel Hibert: Evaluating the use of automated writing evaluation programs as tools for formative feedback in English as a second language postgraduate students. 

Research summary

Interdisciplinary engagements; interdisciplinary learning and teaching; interdisciplinary ethics; spoken discourse, professional, institutional and interdisciplinary discourse; development of analytical tools for mapping spoken interaction patterns; visualisation

Project activity

My current research involves the analysis of interdisciplinary talk and I am currently writing a book, Interdisciplinary Discourse: Communicating across Disciplines, to be published by Palgrave Macmillan. I am also working on the development of analytical tools for mapping interactional dynamics and have developed the IDLab (Interactional discourse Lab), which is published on GitHub.

Interactional Discourse Lab website