Beom Lee

Lecturer in Korean

Office: 502-C 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

Senior Lecturer in Korean, Director of the Korean Language Program

Office: 502-D Kent Hall
Office Hours: M/W 1:00-2:00 PM
Email: jj277@columbia.edu

Educational Background

Ed.D. Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University
Ed.M. Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University
M.A. TESOL, Teachers College, Columbia University

Classes Taught

Introductory Korean
First Year Korean
Accelerated Korean for Heritage Speakers
Third Year Korean
Fourth Year Korean

Research Interests

Intercultural Pragmatics
Second Language Acquisition
Heritage Language Education

Ji-Young Jung joined EALAC in 2018. Her teaching repertoire spans a wide range of courses, including Korean for Heritage Speakers and language-and-content courses such as Current Korean Media and Advanced Readings in Korean. Before coming to Columbia, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University. She is a co-author of Integrated Korean: Accelerated I and II and High Advanced I and II, part of the KLEAR Korean Textbook Series (University of Hawai‘i Press), the most widely used Korean language textbook series in North America. Her contributions also include serving on the task force that developed the College Korean Curriculum Inspired by the National Standards for Korean in 2015. In addition, Ji-Young Jung holds full certification as a tester for both ACTFL’s OPI, a widely used language proficiency assessment tool in academic and professional contexts, and the ILR OPI, an assessment instrument used by the U.S. government and military.

Selected Publications

Integrated Korean: High Advanced 1 & High Advanced 2 (co-author, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2025)

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)