Beom Lee

Lecturer in Korean

Office: 502C Kent Hall
Office Hours: MW 1:00-2:00
Phone: (212) 854-5144
Email: bl355@columbia.edu

Educational Background

EDM: Instructional Technology and Media, Teachers College, Columbia University
MA: Computing and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
MA: Sociology, Hanyang University
BA: Sociology, Hanyang University

Classes Taught

Research Interests

Computer/mobile-based Language Instruction
Language Learning in Cognitive Science

Beom Lee is Korean Language Lecturer in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. He specialized in second language learning with multimedia at Teachers Collage, Columbia University. In Korea, he taught philosophy, history, and culture of Korea and English in the Republic of Korea Army as a military officer in education and psychological warfare. He also worked for Hyundai Construction and Engineering Company as an assistant project manager. Beom Lee joined Columbia faculty in 2005, has taught Introductory, First Year, Second Year, and Fifth Year Korean, and has developed online Korean language resources for First and Second Year Korean with his colleagues.

Online publications

Audio recording for Integrated Korean: Beginning I/II & Intermediate I/II, second edition (University of Hawaii Press, 2016) (http://www.kleartextbook.com)
Online Korean Learning Materials for Non-Heritage Students – Second Year Level I & II, second edition (Columbia University, 2014; co-author) (http://www.lrc.columbia.edu/ko/ko10000)
Online Korean language (The Korea Society, 2013; In progress and partially published)(http://www.koreasociety.org/korean-studies/online-language.html)
Online Korean Learning Materials for Non-Heritage Students – Intermediate Level II (Columbia University, 2012; co-author) (http://www.lrc.columbia.edu/ko/ko10000)
Online Korean Learning Materials for Non-Heritage Students – Intermediate Level I (Columbia University, 2011; co-author) (http://www.lrc.columbia.edu/ko/ko10000)
Online Learning Materials for Elementary Korean True Beginners (Columbia University, 2010; co-author) (http://www.lrc.columbia.edu/ko/ko10000)

Ji-Young Jung

Lecturer in Korean

Office: 502E Kent Hall
Office Hours: T/R 12-1 PM
Email: jj277@columbia.edu

Educational Background

EdD: Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University (2009)
EdM: Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University (2002)
MA: TESOL, Teachers College, Columbia University (2001)

Classes Taught

KORN UN1101 First Year Korean I Section 002
KORN UN3005 Third Year Korean I Section 002

Research Interests

Foreign Language Pedagogy
Intercultural Pragmatics
Discourse Analysis
Heritage Language Teaching and Learning

Ji-Young Jung has taught all levels of Korean for the last thirteen years, including Korean for Heritage Speakers and language-and-content courses such as Current Korean Media and Advanced Readings in Korean (using contemporary Korean literature). Prior to coming to Columbia in 2018, she taught at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and the University of Pennsylvania. She co-authored Integrated Korean: Accelerated I and II for the KLEAR Korean Textbook Series (University of Hawai‘i Press). She served on the task force that created College Korean Curriculum Inspired by National Standards for Korean (2015). She is a certified tester of ACTFL’s OPI (used in academic settings) and ILR OPI (used by the U.S. government).

Selected Publications

Korean for Specific Purposes. In A. S. Byon and D. O. Pyun (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Korean as a Second Language (pp. 194-221) (Routledge, 2022)

Integrated Korean: Accelerated 1 & Accelerated 2 (co-author, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2020 & 2021)

Literacies and Multiliteracies in Korean Language Learning and Teaching. In Y. Y. Cho (Ed.) Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Theories and Practices (pp. 117-146). (co-author, Routledge, 2021).

Citizen sociolinguistics: Making connections in the foreign language classroom. Korean Language in America, 22(1), 1-24 (co-author, 2018)