Lecturer

Ji-Young Jung

Ji-Young Jung

Senior Lecturer in Korean

Office: 502-E Kent Hall
Office Hours: M/R 1:10-2:10 PM
Email: jj277@columbia.edu

Educational Background

Ed.D. in Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University (2009)
Ed.M. in Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University (2002)
M.A. in TESOL, Teachers College, Columbia University (2001)
B.A. in French Language and Literature, Kyungpook National University (1996)

Classes Taught

Introductory Korean
First Year Korean
Accelerated Korean
Third Year Korean

Research Interests

Discourse Analysis
Second Language Acquisition
Heritage Language Education

Ji-Young Jung has an eighteen-year teaching career as a foreign language educator, offering instruction across various proficiency levels of the Korean language. Her teaching repertoire spans diverse courses, including Korean for Heritage Speakers, language-and-content courses like Current Korean Media, and Advanced Readings in Korean, where she delves into contemporary Korean literature. Before her appointment to the EALAC faculty in 2018, Ji-Young Jung shared her expertise at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is a co-author of Integrated Korean: Accelerated I and II for the KLEAR Korean Textbook Series (University of Hawai‘i Press), the most widely used Korean language textbook series in North America. Ji-Young Jung’s contributions extend to her role on the task force responsible for creating the College Korean Curriculum Inspired by the National Standards for Korean in 2015. In addition, Ji-Young Jung holds full certifications as a tester for both ACTFL’s OPI, a language proficiency assessment tool widely utilized in academic and commercial contexts, and ILR OPI, a critical assessment instrument employed by the U.S. government and military.

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)

Tianqi Jiang

 

Tianqi Jiang

Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 508 Kent Hall
Office hours: MW 12:00pm-1:30pm
Email: tj2342@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Beijing Language and Culture
University
MA: MTCSOL, Beijing Language and Culture University
BA: English Language and Literature, Northwest University of Politics and Law

Classes Taught

First Year Chinese N I
First Year Chinese N II
First Year Chinese W I
First Year Chinese W Ii
Legal Chinese

Research Interests

Legal Chinese
Chinese for Specific Purposes
Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language

Tianqi Jiang earned her Ph.D in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Beijing
Language and Culture University. Her dissertation, “A Linguistic Study of Chinese
Business Contracts” investigates the discourse and texts of Chinese business
contracts and attempts to reveal their linguistic features. Prior to joining Columbia
in 2016, she taught Chinese in all levels at Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
(Milan, Italy), and Columbia Summer Program in Beijing. Her research interests
also include East Asian art history.

Lingjun Hu

Lingjun Hu

Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 508 Kent Hall
Office Hours: W, Th 2:20-3:20pm
Phone: (212) 854-2311
Email: lh2318@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Cognitive Studies of Education, Teacher’s College, Columbia University
MA: Chinese Language Pedagogy, Ohio State University (2003)
BA: English Language and Literature, Xi’an Foreign Language University

Classes Taught

CHNS UN1102 First Year Chinese II
CHNS UN3003 Third Year Chinese I
CHNS UN3004 Third Year Chinese II

Research Interests

Second Language Acquisition
Chinese Language Pedagogy

Lingjun Hu started teaching Chinese in 2000 and joined Columbia faculty in 2006, and has taught Chinese at all levels. She has also taught for the Columbia and Princeton summer programs in Beijing. She has developed teaching materials for Chinese programs and is in charge of the language placement test and the language certificate. She is the co-author of two textbooks for Business Chinese.

Publications

Winning Strategies: Learning Business Chinese. 商务中文案例教程（听说卷 (Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Press, in press; lead author)
Excellence in Business Chinese– Practical application 卓越汉语公司实战篇 (Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Press, 2011; co-author)
Teach Chinese in the United States (Beijing University Press, in press; co-author)