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Hyunkyu Yi

LECTURER IN KOREAN

Office: 401 Kent Hall
Office Hours: MTWR 4:00-5:00
Teaching Hours: MWR 10:10-11:25, MW 2:40-3:45, TR 2:40-3:45
Phone: (212) 854-5144
Email: hy122@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: East Asian History, Yonsei University (1987)
BA: History, Yonsei University (1982)

Classes Taught

KORN UN1001 Introductory Korean A
KORN UN1002 Introductory Korean B
KORN UN3005 Third-Year Korean N I
KORN GU4106 Fourth Year Korean II
KORN GR8010 Advanced Korean in Mixed Script

Research Interests

Korean Language Pedagogy

HyunKyu Yi taught Korean at Korean Language Institute in Yonsei University from 1988 to 1996. Hyunkyu Yi joined Columbia faculty in 1996.

Online publications

Korean for Overseas Koreans (English) (National Institute for International Education, Ministry of Education of Republic of Korea, 2017; co-author)
Standardized Tests for Korean Schools (the National Association for Korean Schools, 2016)
Korean 5 (Ministry of Education Science and Technology, 2011; co-author)
Korean 6 (Ministry of Education Science and Technology, 2011; co-author)
Korean Language curriculum for Korean School (NAKSNEC –The National Association for Korean School s Northeast Chapter, 2011; co-author)
Korean Language II (Second edition) (Korea Culture Research Inc., 2010; co-author)
Korean Language I – Easy to learn – (Third edition) (Korea Culture Research Inc., 2008; co-author)
“Teaching Korean Grammar” (Bulletin of the National Association for Korean Schools (NAKS), 2006)
Korean Language I – Easy to learn – (Second edition) (Korea Culture Research Inc., 2004; co-author)
Korean Language II (Korean Language Center of New York, 2002)
“Teaching of Speaking Korean Language in the Classroom”, (Bulletin of the National Association for Korean School (NAKS), 2001)
Korean Language I – Easy to learn – (Korean Language Center of New York, 2000; co-author)
Korean Language I (CD-ROM) (Korean Language Center of New York, 2000)
“How to Teach Speaking” (Bulletin of the National Association for Korean School (NAKS), 2000)

Joowon Suh

SENIOR LECTURER IN KOREAN; DIRECTOR OF THE KOREAN LANGUAGE PROGRAM

Office: TBA
Office Hours: TBA
Teaching Hours: TBA
Phone: TBA
Email: TBA

Educational Background

EdD: Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University (2007)
EdM: Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University (2000)

Classes Taught

TBA

Research Interests

Korean Linguistics and Language Pedagogy
Discourse Analysis
Sociolinguistics
Interlanguage Pragmatics
Intercultural Communication

Joowon Suh is a Senior Lecturer in Korean and the Director of the Korean Language Program. Prior to joining Columbia in 2017, she taught at Princeton University as Senior Lecturer and Director of the Korean Language Program.

She is currently working in collaboration to revise the KLEAR Integrated Korean Textbook Series and to create the second edition of the accompanying workbook series. She also served on the task forces that created Standards for Foreign Language Learning: Korean (2012) and College Korean Curriculum Inspired by National Standards for Korean (2015).

She is currently serving her second three-year term as the Executive Secretary of the American Association of Teachers of Korean. She is also serving on the editorial boards of Korean Semantics and Language and Information Society and as a reviewer for Journal of Less Commonly Taught Languages and New York State TESOL Journal.

Publications

“English as lingua franca in multilingual business negotiations: Managing miscommunication using other-initiated repairs” (Multilingual Matters, 2015)
KLEAR Integrated Korean Workbook Series: Intermediate 2 (2013; co-author)
KLEAR Integrated Korean Workbook Series: Intermediate 1 (2012; co-author)
KLEAR Integrated Korean Workbook Series: Beginning 2 (2010; co-author)
KLEAR Integrated Korean Workbook Series: Beginning 1 (2009; co-author)

Sunhee Song

ADJUNCT LECTURER IN KOREAN

Office: 404 Kent Hall
Office Hours: TR 1:30-2:30
Teaching Hours: MTWR 2:40-3:45, 4:10-5:15
Phone: (212)854-5144
Email: ss2029@columbia.edu
 
 
 
 

Educational Background

EdD: TESOL, Teachers College, Columbia University (2009)
EdM: TESOL, Teachers College, Columbia University (2007)
MA: TESOL, San Francisco State University (2000)
BA: Elementary Education (with Teaching Certificate), Busan National University of Education (1993)

Classes Taught

KORN UN1102 First Year Korean II
KORN UN2202 Second Year Korean II

Research Interests

Second and Foreign Language Acquisition
Role of Input, Output, and Interactional Feedback
Instructional Techniques
Teaching and Learning Process

Before Sunhee Song joined Columbia faculty in 2010, she taught Korean as a foreign language at Princeton University, NJ in 2009 and had worked as a public school teacher for 6 years in Korea prior to pursuing her graduate studies. She has published her empirical studies in linguistic journals, such as Korean Journal of English Language (2011) and Linguistics and English Language Teaching (2010), focusing on written corrective feedback and its effectiveness on second and foreign language learning.

Online publications

“To what extent do learners benefit from indirect written corrective feedback? A study targeting learners of different proficiency and heritage language status” (Language Teaching Research, 2016; co-author)

“Effects of recasts on different morphosyntactic features: A study of a beginning ESL learner” (Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics, 2011)

“Perceptions of recasts by ESL learners of different proficiency levels: A classroom-based study” (English Language Teaching, 2010; co-author)

“Beginning ESL learners’ noticing of morphological and syntactic changes in recasts” (Teachers College, Columbia University Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, 2007)
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