Abraham Chin Chang

Professor of Spanish; Director of On-Campus International Programs and Korean Initiatives; Director of Upland Sejong Institute

I Serve in...

English & Modern Languages Department

Education

• PhD, Romance Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin
• MDiv, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
• MA, Spanish Linguistics, Instituto Caro y Cuervo
• BA, Spanish Linguistics and Literature, Korea University

Career Accomplishments

• Fullbright, National Screening Committees (NSC) (Fall 2025 - present)
• Director of On-Campus Int’l Programs, (June 2024 - present), Taylor University, Upland, Indiana
• Director of Upland Sejong Institute (June 2019 – present), Taylor University, Upland, Indiana
• Department Chair (June 2015 – Spring 2020), Dept. of Modern Languages, Taylor University
• Director of Korean Program (August 2012 - Present), Taylor University, Upland, Indiana
• The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese 
• Hispania Journal (article reviewer) (2009 - present)
• Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2004, Dissertation Nominated for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation. Dissertation Title: “A Comparative study of the Determiner in Spanish, English, and Korean.” (Supervisor: Dr. Marta Lujan)
• Research Grant (2017-18): Taylor University Women’s Giving Circle
• Senior Capstone Vocation Curricular Enhancement Mini-grant
• Professional Development Award (2003) - The Graduate School of UT at Austin
• Scholarship for the Exchange Scholar (1993-95) - Ministry of Education of Korea
• Scholarship of ICETEX (1994-95) -Ministry of Education of Colombia
• Scholarship of OEA (1993-95) - Instituto Caro y Cuervo

Featured Work

2017 “Vocabulary Learning vs. Vocabulary Acquisition” (Two Different Approaches: Visual vs. Written) (Texas Linguistics Society, 2017)

2009 “A Comparative Study on Syntactic Behavior of Null Operator and the Universal Projection of Determiner Phrase in Relative Clause”, Korean Journal of Hispanic Studies, 2008, 71-92

2004 “A Study of the Determiner Phrase of Spanish, English, and Korean” University of Texas at Austin, Ph. D Dissertation

2003 “Uniqueness Principles of Overt- Complementizer Phrase and the Alternation between OP and Determiners in Spanish” Korea, Journal of Asociación Coreana de Hispanistas

1995 “Colocación y Concurrencia de los Pronombres Clíticos de tercera persona en el habla de la ciudad de Bogotá” Instituto Caro y Cuervo MA Thesis Bogotá

2018 “Decisive Factors Classifying Language Proficiency Levels” (for Curriculum Development Guide) (Oct. 2018), The 33rd Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at the University of West Georgia

2017 “Vocabulary Learning vs. Vocabulary Acquisition” (Two Different Approaches:Visual vs. Written) (Sep. 2017), Texas Linguistics Society (Dept. of Linguistics) – University of Texas at Austin

2016 “Making Meaning of Internationalization” (Institutional Strategies Workshop) (May 2016) Institute for Curriculum and Campus Internalization

2016 “Fostering Connections, Empowering Communities and Celebrating the World” (Mar, 2016), 2016 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

2015 “Collaboration and Technology in 21st Century Language Learning” (Oct. 2015) Vista Higher Learning, Fall Forum in Chicago

2014 “Spanish Classroom in American College” (June 2014) ARCO Language Institute, Cuenca, Ecuador

2013 “Expectations and Achievements of the Students in University-level Intermediate Spanish Classes” (Nov, 2013) The 28th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at the University of West Georgia

2010 “New Tools for Teaching Spanish for Business”, Webinar conference, McGraw-Hill Higher Education

2010 “Facilitate Department Exams, Comprehensive Finals, and Proficiency Testing [Bb Assessments], T4T Conference at Taylor University.

2009 Spanish Language and Spanish Teacher Education Program in US; Series of Special Lecture at Korea University.

2008 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Language (March 6-8) at Dearborn MI

2002 “El Logicismo gramatical de los Tiempos y Aspectos verbales de Bello” The 12th Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature and Romance Linguistics (Austin, TX)

1994 “Problemática Sociolingüística de los Niños “Gamines” de Santafé de Bogotá en la Plaza Santander.” Departamento de la Lingüística Española, Instituto Caro y Cuervo

1994 With Alfredo Jaime Bruges Moreno, “La Biblioteca de Babel-Aplicación del Modelo de Producción de Sentido” Departamento de la Lingüística Española, Instituto Caro y Cuervo

1994 “¿Cómo se genera la producción de sentido?” Departamento de la Lingüística Española, Instituto Caro y Cuervo

1993 “Una Visión Crítica de las Letras Hispanoamericanas de Lezama Lima” Seminario Andrés Bello, Instituto Caro y Cuervo

About

Teaching at Taylor is one of the greatest blessings in my life. Taylor is where I have found my real friends and colleagues of my life. I feel so grateful and happy walking together with my friends at Taylor towards the same direction to the same goals of our lives.

My relationships with students at Taylor is more than just between a professor and a student in the classroom. We are more like a family. Students and I share joys and issues and pray together. For me, it is a great pleasure and blessing to be able to enjoy interactions with students and to see them grow.