Faculty-Language-Pedagogy

Filed Under: Adjunct, Korean

Jiyeon Janice Kim

Jiyeon Janice Kim

Adjunct Lecturer in Korean

Office: 502F Kent Hall
Office Hours: T 2:30 pm -3:30 pm
Email: jyk2123@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Teacher’s College at Columbia University (’15)

Classes Taught

KORN UN1101 First-Year Korean I

Research Interests

Second Language Acquisition.

Jiyeon Kim has been teaching a wide range of Korean levels to all ages since 2014. She received her M.A. in Early Childhood Education from Teachers College Columbia University and holds a TESOL certificate from University of California, Riverside. She is currently working at the Korea Society as a Korean language instructor.

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Tao Peng

Tao Peng

Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 510 Kent Hall
Office Hours: MW 1:00-2:30
Phone: (212) 854-3604
Email: tp2728@columbia.edu

Educational Background

Ed.M.: Curriculum and Methodology of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Beijing Language and Culture University
B.A.: Chinese Language and Literature, Hunan Normal University

Classes Taught

CHNS UN1101 First Year Chinese I
CHNS UN2201 Second Year Chinese N I

Research Interests

Tao Peng joined the Columbia faculty as a Lecturer of Chinese in the Fall of 2021. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Comparative Literature Department of the University of California, Riverside. His dissertation in progress, “The Emergence of the Modern Narrator in Chinese Fiction: Studies of Lu Xun, Shi Zhecun, Sun Li, and Wang Zengqi,” is an interdisciplinary project of literary criticism, narratology, and linguistics. Before joining the Columbia faculty, Tao Peng taught Chinese language classes at Princeton University. He also taught and coordinated various levels of Chinese courses at the Princeton in Beijing Summer Program.

Juan Zhong

Juan Zhong

Adjunct Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 506 Kent Hall

Office Hours: TR 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. or by appointment

Email: jz3019@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University (2021)

BA: Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages, Beijing Foreign Studies University (2018)

Classes Taught

CHNS UN3003 Third Year Chinese N I Section 004

CHNS UN3004 Third Year Chinese N II Section 004

Research Interests

syntax, semantics, pragmatics, linguistic documentation, pedagogical grammar

Juan Zhong holds the TCSOL/TESOL dual certificate from Teachers College, Columbia University. She has been developing and instructing Mandarin Chinese courses of various levels to adult students from diverse backgrounds since 2017. After teaching Third Year Chinese at the Columbia in Beijing Summer Program in 2017 and 2018, Juan Zhong joined Columbia as a language associate. She also taught Second Year Chinese in the 2021 Virtual Columbia Summer Program.