Faculty-Language-Pedagogy

Xiaonan Chu

Xiaonan Chu

Adjunct Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 506 Kent Hall
Office Hours: M, W, Th 10:20–11:20 a.m.
Email: xc2375@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Bilingual and Bicultural Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Certificate: Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL), Teachers College, Columbia University
MA: English Literature, China University of Petroleum
BA: English, Changchun University of Science and Technology

Classes Taught

CHNS UN1111 FIRST YEAR CHINESE W I
CHNS UN1112 FIRST YEAR CHINESE W II

Research Interests

Second Language Acquisition
Chinese Language Pedagogy
Language Input and Learner Engagement
Differentiated Language Instruction
AI-Supported Language Learning
Curriculum Development

Bio

Xiaonan Chu began teaching as an adjunct Chinese language instructor at Columbia University in Fall 2025. She previously served as a Teaching Associate in Chinese at Columbia and has taught Chinese and English in both the United States and China. Her experience also includes curriculum development, teacher education, and interdisciplinary program design. Her current interests center on responsive language-learning ecologies that integrate rich and comprehensible input, meaningful communication, differentiated pathways, learner agency, and AI-supported learning. She is particularly interested in how language curricula can respond to learners’ diverse linguistic backgrounds, cognitive strengths, and developmental needs.

Publications

Chu, Xiaonan. “On a Contrastive Method of Teaching Culture in ELT Classroom for College-Level Students.” Higher Education of Social Science, 3(3), 2012.

Chu, Xiaonan, and Xiuhua Wang. “Characteristic Analysis of Mandarin Chinese From a Cultural Perspective.” Studies in Literature and Language, 7(2), 2013.

Book chapter in preparation (co-author): Interdisciplinary theme-based learning for K–12 educators in China.

Sue Y. Yoon

Sue Y. Yoon

Lecturer in Korean

Office: 502E Kent Hall
Office Hours: TW 4-5 PM
Phone: (212) 854-5038
Email: syy2121@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Korean Language and Linguistics, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (2023)
MA: Linguistics with specialization in Language Teaching Studies, University of Oregon (2017)
MA: Korean Linguistics and Pedagogy, University of Oregon (2017)
BA: Linguistics, University of Oregon (2015)

Classes Taught

Introductory Korean A
First Year Korean
Second Year Korean
Accelerated Korean for Heritage Speakers
Third Year Korean

Research Interests

Interactional Linguistics
Conversation Analysis
Korean Linguistics and Pedagogy

Sue Y. Yoon received her doctoral degree in Korean Language and Linguistics from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her dissertation, titled “The Interactional Uses of Response Tokens in Korean Conversation: As Resources for Managing Turns, Sequences, and Stances”, examines how the recipient of a turn deploys response tokens to accomplish a diverse range of interactional work.

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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