Research Interests for Hae-Young Kim

Her research and teaching interests include L2 Korean morpho-syntactic development, bilingualism, heritage language development and maintenance, and content-based instruction of language with focus on history, literature and cultural studies. She has published on tense/aspect morphology and relative clause construction in L2 Korean, Korean heritage language students in the U.S. and classroom discourse in a content-based language class.

Areas of Interest:

Second language acquisition
Interface between morphology and discourse semantics
Bilingualism and biculturalism
Heritage language development and maintenance
Content-based instruction of language
Second/Foreign language curriculum and pedagogy
Multi-media teaching materials development for post-secondary Korean

Representative Publications

1. H. Kim, Content-Based Language Teaching: A model for bridging with Korean Studies [In Korean], The proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Korean Language Education (2011), pp. 97-104
2. H. Kim, Korean in the United States, in Language Diversity in the U.S., edited by Kim Potowski (2010), pp. 164-178, Cambridge University Press
3. H. Kim, Factors in the choice of referential forms in Korean discourse: Salience, speaker perspective and thematic importance, The Korean Language in America, vol. 14 (2009), pp. 1-24 [available here] [abs]
4. H. Kim, Commentary, edited by Lee, J.S. and Shin, S.J. (Guest Eds.), Korean as a Heritage Language [Special issue]. Heritage Language Journal, vol. 6 no. 2 (2008), pp. 94-104 [available here]
5. K. Seon Jeon and Hae-Young Kim, Noun Phrase Accessibility Hiearchy in head-internal and head-external relativization in L2 Korean, edited by Yasuhiro Shirai (Guest editor), Studies in Second Language Acquisition, vol. 29 no. 2 (2007), pp. 253-276 [abs]
6. EunHee Lee and Hae-Young Kim, On cross-linguistic variations in imperfective aspect: the case of L2 Korean, Language Learning, vol. 57 no. 4 (2007), pp. 651-685 [abs]
7. Jin Sook Lee and Hae-Young Kim, Heritage language learners’ attitudes, motivations and instructional needs: The case of post-secondary Korean language learners, in Teaching Chinese, Japanese and Korean Heritage Students: Curriculum Needs, Materials and Assessment, ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series, edited by Kondo-Brown, K., & J.D. Brown (2008), pp. 159-185, Mahwah, NJ:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates [abs]