February 2, 1995: Vol26n15: National teachers council designates UB alumnus as 'promising researcher'

National teachers council designates UB alumnus as 'promising
researcher' 
Joy Pei-Lin Chung, who received a doctorate from the Department of
Learning and Instruction in the Graduate School of Education at UB in
1992, was named a 1994 Promising Researcher by the National Council of
Teachers of English at its annual meeting held in Orlando, Fla. in
November.
	Chung received the award for a summary of her doctoral
dissertation, "Language Socialization in a Clique of Chinese Immigrant
Students: An Ethnology of a Process of Social Identity Formation."
James L. Collins, UB associate professor of learning and instruction,
served as her advisor. Chung is the second UB student to receive the
award.
	She concluded in her study of a clique of eight immigrant
Chinese students that they used the Chinese language and culture to
establish and maintain a separate social identity in order to mediate
their integration into American university life. 
	The main implication of her multicultural study is that
educators need to understand that the language socialization of
immigrant students is an active part of their social identity
formation, and entails both American and immigrant cultures.
	Chung, a native of Tai-Pei, Taiwan, received her master's
degree in secondary education from the Southern Methodist University
in Texas and her bachelor's degree from Fu-Jen Catholic University in
Taiwan. She now works in the field of international business. o