Lecturer

Sue Y. Yoon

Sue Y. Yoon

Lecturer in Korean

Office: 502-G 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

KORN UN1101 First Year Korean
KORN UN2201 Second Year Korean

Research Interests

Korean Linguistics and Pedagogy
Interactional Linguistics
Conversation Analysis
Multimodality

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.

Hyunkyu Yi

Hyunkyu Yi

Lecturer in Korean

Office: 502-C Kent Hall
Office Hours: TR 4:10 PM-5:10 PM
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)

Ling Yan

Ling Yan

Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 512 Kent Hall
Office Hours: TR 11:15am-12:45pm
Phone: (212) 854-3594
Email: ly2131@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Linguistics, University of Kansas (2005)
MA: Applied Linguistics, Northwestern Polytechnical University (1996)
BA: British Literature, Northwest University (1986)

Classes Taught

CHNS UN1101 First Year Chinese I
CHNS UN1102 First Year Chinese II
CHNS GU4015 Fourth Year Chinese I
CHNS GU4016 Fourth Year Chinese II

Research Interests

Linguistics
Second Language Acquisition
Chinese Teaching Pedagogy and Culture
Syntax and Prosodic-Syntax

Ling Yan started teaching Chinese in 1999 and has taught Chinese at all levels. She joined the Columbia faculty in 2004. In addition to teaching, she also serves as the Coordinator of Elementary Chinese. Before joining Columbia, she played an active role as a summer instructor at the University of Kansas.

Publications

Approaching China Textbook (1st Year) (Pekin University Press, 2015)
“Yuti (Register-Stylistic) Grammar and Textbook Compiling” (Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 2013; co-author)
“An Analysis of the Chinese Prosodic Words in Rewritten Chinese” (Proceedings of The 18th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL) and 22th Annual North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL), 2010)
201 Chinese Verbs (2nd edition) (Barrons Educational Series, Inc., 2007; co-author)
“A Statistic Analysis of VP Prosody in Modern Chinese Writing” (Harvard University Proceedings on New Trend of Chinese Written Language Teaching and Studies, 2005; co-author)
“The Syntax of the Ba-constructions” (Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2004)