Derby Teh Yi Shyuan

Derby Teh Yi Shyuan

  • Teaching Fellow
English for Specific Academic Purposes Unit
  • Centre for English Language Studies (CELS)
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Biography

Derby Teh is a Korean language educator with extensive academic and professional experience in Korean language education. She holds a Master of Arts in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language from Ewha Womans University, South Korea, where she was awarded the prestigious Global Korea Scholarship (GKS), and obtained a Korean Language Teacher Certificate issued by the National Institute of Korean Language (국립국어원). Derby has been teaching Korean since 2020 and working as a freelance Korean interpreter since 2022, supporting assignments in K-pop events, tourism, and business settings. Her scholarly work includes a master's thesis in Korean language education and a co-authored peer-reviewed journal article. Beyond academia, she has held Korean-speaking roles across the tourism, finance, and e-commerce industries, further strengthening her expertise in cross-cultural communication. Her professional interests include Korean language pedagogy, pronunciation instruction, and promoting meaningful cultural exchange between Korea and Malaysia.

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • Korean Language Teacher Certificate, National Institute of Korean Language 국립국어원 (2023)
  • M.A. in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language, Ewha Womans University, Seoul (2023)
  • B.A. in Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (2020)

Teaching Areas

  • Korean as a Foreign Language

Courses Taught

  • START KOREAN: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE ESSENTIALS

Notable Publications

  1. Teh, Yi Shyuan. "외국 국적 아이돌 가수 및 연습생을 위한 한국어 어휘 분석 연구." (A Lexical Analysis for Foreign K-pop Idols and Trainees: Focusing on the Classification of Korean Vocabulary Based on Topics and Situations) 국내석사학위논문 이화여자대학교 국제대학원, 2023. 서울 
  2. Wu Ziying and Teh Yishyuan. "숙달도와 노출 시간에 따른 중국인 대학생 한국어 학습자의 대화 함축 이해." (Understanding Conversational Implicature among Chinese College Students Learning Korean Based on Proficiency and Exposure) 한국언어문화학 22.1 (2025): 39-68.

Achievements & Accolades

  1. Global Korea Scholarship (GKS) for Graduate Degrees (2020)
  2. Grand Prize Winner, 14th Korean Speech Contest in Malaysia (2019)</li>