Hae-Young Kim, Professor of the Practice of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Chair of the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Her research and teaching interests include bilingualism and translanguaging, second and heritage Korean language development, and content-based language instruction with focus on history, literature and cultural studies. She has published on topics such as discourse reference forms, tense/aspect morphology and relative clause construction in L2 Korean, heritage language learners and motivations, and content-driven and socially-engaging language instruction. Her current research focuses on construction of language instruction that engages in critical academic discourse while aligning with students’ cultural interests and subjectivity.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	2204 Erwin Road Room 223, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2026):  (typical courses)

• KOREAN 305.01, ADVANCED KOREAN Synopsis

  Class Bldg 125, MWF 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

Office Hours:

Wednesday 11:00-1:00pm; Thursday 11:00-12:00pm

Education:

Ph.D.	University of Hawaii, Manoa	2000
M.A.	Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)	1991
M.A.	Seoul National University (South Korea)	1985
B.A.	Seoul National University (South Korea)	1983

Specialties:

Korean

Research Interests: Second Language Acquisition and Heritage language curriculum development

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

Keywords:

Applied linguistics • Second language acquisition

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Kim, H-Y, Second Language Acquisition and its implications for teaching Korean, in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language Pedagogy: Theories and Practices, edited by Cho, Y-MY (September, 2020), pp. 3-23, ISBN 9780367199616 [doi]  [abs]
2. Kim, H-Y; Seo, J, 학술적 글쓰기 교육: 저자 입지의 탐색과 표명 (Academic literacy: Marking of authorial stance in advanced KHL writing practice). (2017)  [abs]
3. Kim, H, Socially engaged writing in the KFL class: a post-product, post-process approach, Language Facts and Perspectives, vol. 37 (2016), pp. 119-148 [repository]
4. Kim, H; Choi, Y, Development of Aspect Morphology in Korean, Journall of Language Science, vol. 23 no. 4 (2016), pp. 203-225, The Korean Association of Language Science  [abs]
5. CURRICULUM/CURRICULAR FRAMEWORK, The Korean Language in America, vol. 19 no. 2 (July, 2015), pp. 178-380, The Pennsylvania State University Press, ISSN 2332-0346 [doi]  [abs]